Word: grundmann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the holiday weekend, the air traffic around LAX was not unusually heavy. The unidentified experienced controller covering Flight 498 had only ten radar transponder blips to track on his screen. "It was busy, but we weren't to the point of saturation," said Air Controller Karl Grundmann, another of the men on duty. Flight 498's controller told the pilot to descend from 7,000 ft. to 6,000. At 11:53, he issued a warning to the Aeromexico jet: "Traffic 10 o'clock (slightly to the airliner's left), one mile northbound, altitude unknown." Re- sponded 498: "Roger...
...hoping against hope that a transponder had gone out or there was something wrong with the radar -- anything but a crash," recalled Grundmann. "He was looking anguished. We knew something was wrong...
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