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...club's president Fernando Zozaya says the mayor's plan to seize the land is unrealistic because it would cause a traffic nightmare and would have a negative affect on the 11,000 club members and direct and indirect employees. He also points out, with an ironic chuckle, that the city proposes to raze an institution that the federal government last year declared as part of the national patrimony in recognition of its historic value...
Still, the biggest problem is traffic jams: more than 14,000 ships transit the canal each year, stretching its outdated capacity. And a growing share of that freight can't cross Panama at all. By 2010, the number of post-Panamax vessels in the global commercial fleet is expected to jump 74%, to about 700, and by 2011, they will probably account for half the world's oceangoing commercial-cargo capacity, according to the World Shipping Council in Washington. The expansion design, approved by Panama's Congress last spring, would dig a new approach channel about five miles long just...
Toll increases would pay the expansion's $5.25 billion projected cost, about half of which would be financed by international banks. Alemán estimates the increased traffic could raise the canal's annual income to as much as $5 billion...
...Lidle's plane was under "visual flight rules," meaning the pilots - not air traffic controllers - are responsible for keeping an eye out for other aircraft or obstacles. Lidle did not (and was not required to) file a "flight plan," or detailed route, with the Federal Aviation Administration before taking off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. General aviation planes like Lidle's typically have transponders that automatically send out a signal that makes them visible on an air traffic controller's radar...
...unclear who was actually flying the airplane, and who was monitoring air traffic control, though the NTSB's Hersman said Lidle had gotten his license on Feb. 9, 2006. It is standard practice in an airplane emergency for one pilot to focus on keeping the plane stable and aloft while the other pilot handles the radio and troubleshoots the emergency...