Word: tracon
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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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...
Federal investigators discovered that the Piper's path toward the airliner had been visible on the TRACON screen "for several minutes," as one described it. The planes had collided at 6,500 ft., just 500 ft. above the floor of the protected space. The left wing of the Piper clipped the descending airliner's left side at the tail. The jet's stabilizer sheared off the Piper's top, decapitating Kramer and his two passengers. There was no answer to the crucial question: Why had no one in either plane spotted the other craft in time...
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