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Using the present Instrument Landing System (ILS), the pilot of a jetliner approaching a fog-shrouded airport hears the sound pattern of a "localizer" radio beam when he is approximately eight miles from the end of the runway. He follows the beam, and soon a radio beacon warns him by...
"One aircraft overrunning a runway is very unusual," commented the Federal Aviation Agency's regional director, Oscar Bakke. "But three at once! I just don't recall anything like it." All of the three planes were making landings in rainy weather. The Pan Am flight, coming in on...
The gift was born of passion. Lewis scathed and scorned America, and the fury of his attack and the accuracy of his evidence shocked the boosters of Main Street into startled self-surmise, starting the agonized self-appraisal and self-doubt that has characterized much of ILS. social criticism ever...
Both planes had entered the New York area under clearance from Air Route Traffic Control center at Idlewild. In the heavy weather, both had been ordered to follow strict holding patterns while awaiting clearance to land: the TWA Connie at 6,000 ft. over Linden, N.J., south of Newark Airport...
The U.A.L. DC-8, directed to circle at Preston, would, when cleared, have normally flown eastward toward Idlewild's ILS glide path. U.A.L. Pilot R. H. Sawyer acknowledged and confirmed his instructions from Air Traffic Control to circle Preston, and his acknowledgment was the last contact Idlewild ever got...