Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long Hours. Virtually all the major State Department cable traffic went to the touring Kissinger, creating an enormous logistical burden for his staffs. Vance lets Deputy Secretary Warren Christopher run the department while he is away. As a result, he gets only about one-fifth of the messages demanded by Kissinger, who usually asked for several a day, each running about five to six pages. After two days of getting roughly the same number, Vance sent out an order restricting them to no more than a page and a half...
...This meant that most of the 11,155-ft. runway (nearly two miles) was invisible to a pilot at one end of it. It also was hidden from the view of the tower controllers, who as at many similar airports, had no ground radar to help them track surface traffic. For unexplained reasons, the white centerline lights embedded in the runway?a further aid to pilots when visibility is poor?were not operating. Inside the Clipper, Edward Hess, 39, a food broker from Phoenix, thought, "I don't know much about this, but this is below minimum." In fact...
...Illinois. What is worse, the coordination between commercial and military flights is so poor that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has ordered a Cabinet study of the problem. In 1976 there were 221 "near collisions"?approaches close enough to terrify those who knew what had happened. Says a senior air traffic controller at Koln-Bonn airport: "It's like playing Russian roulette in the air." The fact that there have been no collisions in recent years is testimony to West Germany's wary pilots, sophisticated ground equipment and a superb group of air controllers, surely one of the most harassed contingents...
...Eastern 158, cleared for takeoff." Soon after the jet leaves the ground, another technician in the station, known as departure control, picks up the jet on radar and guides it out of the general area of the airport. Next, a controller in one of the 20 air-route traffic control centers that blanket the country takes over responsibility, monitors the jet through his section of the sky, and then hands it on to the adjoining control center...
Roughly one-third of O'Hare's controllers suffer from peptic ulcers, and another third have gastric or emotional problems of one kind or another. While they work, the controllers gulp down antacid tablets from jars kept within easy reach. The Chicago branch of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization has sued the FAA, claiming that the O'Hare unit is understaffed, backup equipment is lacking, and training programs are ineffective...