Alaskan Region
David Whisnant, Anchorage TRACON Douglas Mruk phoned in for help on the early morning of June 30, and it was not from the sky, or even solid ground. Mruk found himself clinging to the edge of […]
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Western Pacific Region
Kevin McLaughlin, Southern California TRACON Air traffic controller Kevin McLaughlin was working the Shore radar position in the Coast Area at Southern California TRACON on July 29, 2011, when a student pilot flying a Cirrus SR20 […]
Southwest Region
Frank Fisher and Greg Fleetwood, Corpus Christi Tower/TRACON When the pilot of a Cessna Centurion radioed in and reported engine troubles the morning of Sept. 6, 2011, a pair of veteran air traffic controllers at Corpus […]
Southern Region
Alvin Kent, Atlanta Center Five minutes. On Nov. 10, 2011, the pilot of a Cessna Skyhawk with a rough running engine was five minutes away from landing safely at an abandoned airport in rural southwestern Alabama. […]
Northwest Mountain Region 2
Ken Greenwood, Josh Haviland, Ryan Herrick, Seattle TRACON “You know what? You just saved my life.” Some of the most important words an air traffic controller could ever hear were spoken by the pilot of a […]
Northwest Mountain Region
Charlie Rohrer, Denver Center Call it fate that Denver Center air traffic controller Charlie Rohrer took a class on hypoxia, a condition in which a person’s body is deprived of oxygen, the week of May 9, […]
