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President’s Award for Best Flight Assist of 2009 Lisa Grimm, Nathan Henkels, and Jessica Anaya, Miami Center Dan Favio, Brian Norton, and Carey Meadows, Fort Myers ATCT “I’ve gotta’ declare an emergency. My pilot’s…unconscious. I need […]

Troy Decker, Salt Lake Center One of the trends we have seen in the six years of our NATCA Archie League Medal of Safety awards program has been the prevalence of winning flight assists that involved a […]

Kevin Plante and Christopher Presley, Portland, Maine ATCT With daylight waning, and an aircraft stuck amidst rapidly deteriorating weather conditions and mountainous terrain, timing is everything. And on Oct. 9, 2009, it was up to controllers […]

Kristin Danninger, Madison, Wisc. ATCT It was the first of the year and bad weather was moving in as 14-year veteran Kristin Danninger worked the radar approach position at Madison. A couple of VFR flights had already […]

Louis Charles Ridley, Potomac TRACON The pilot of the Velocity – tail number and call sign N129VA – who took to the skies above Northern Virginia after taking off from Manassas Regional Airport on July 5 […]

Jessica Hermsdorfer, Kansas City ATCT You already know about the “Miracle on the Hudson” event. But there was another terrifying collision between birds and an Airbus last year that didn’t get as much attention. While the aircraft […]