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...noon approached, Valdes was guiding Flight 498 toward a landing in Los Angeles. A 14-year Aeromexico veteran, he had departed from Mexico City and made stops in Guadalajara, Loreto and Tijuana. At 11:51, he made his first radio contact with the terminal radar control (TRACON) center at the Los Angeles airport...
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...
...investigators speculated that Kramer had made two critical mistakes: he had not sought permission by radio to enter the restricted area; and although his radar transponder was on, as required, it was not equipped to transmit the mandatory altitude information. John Lauber, heading the investigation for the National Transportation Safety Board, reported that the controller said he did not recall seeing the Piper's blip. Even if he had seen it, said Lauber, "if he doesn't have altitude information, then it's a reasonable assumption for him that the aircraft is not operating in the terminal control area...
...foreign force, the Administration would not be raising the question of Gramm-Rudman," says Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel of Harlem. This week the House will take up a $2 billion-to-$3 billion antidrug package that will fund every weapon in the war on drugs, from more radar balloons for the border patrol to more drug-treatment centers in the ghetto...