Word: tracon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Cusack (Con Air, Grosse Pointe Blank) is Nick Falzone, an air traffic control freak who "pushes tin" at New York's Terminal Radar Approach Control center (TRACON). He directs planes coming into NYC airports, sings oldies when he's not rattling off instructions to airplane pilots and slurps coffee while directing planes to safe landings...
...Known as "The Zone," Nick is responsible for the busiest radar scope in TRACON. He lands all of Newark airport's planes, and is capable of handling heavy air traffic for hours on end. He's quick, he's sharp, and he's good. In this world of chaos and finite airspace, Nick is the best there...
...York way, which might be called terrorist-driven; and the California way, which might be called technology-jinxed. In New York City last Monday, the three big area airports briefly ceased business. The cause was a bomb threat to the obscure yet vital New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), where 200 air-traffic controllers usher planes through a 150-mile radius around New York City. "There was reason to believe the caller had knowledge of the building and how it worked," says Phil Barbarello, head of the local traffic controllers' union. So the control center evacuated...
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