controller
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All radio contact will be lost for about 40 minutes, meaning flight controllers won't know what is happening on board.
From BBC
“But if he’s taking out the GM of a plant or controller and they’ve gone off and ordered Champagne for everybody, then you go, oh look, that’s a conversation.”
Air-traffic controllers evacuated a tower after reporting a burning smell from an elevator, an incident the FAA later insisted wasn’t a fire.
From Barron's
“We’re going to be addressing that, because that was not good,” the air traffic controller responded.
From Los Angeles Times
Authorities on Tuesday released details from the final three minutes of cockpit voice recordings and tower communications, including that controllers had cleared both the plane and a fire truck to cross the runway.
From BBC
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