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BERLIN, March 7 (Reuters) - Germany will next week drop its plan to privatise state-owned air traffic control firm Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS), government sources said on Saturday. The sources confirmed a report in weekly magazine Der Spiegel which said the cabinet would next week formally abandon the bid, which had already been blocked by President Horst Koehler in 2006. Koehler angered ...

Aircraft lost contact with the Air Traffic Control around 3.30 p.m.

Work on the new air traffic control tower at Ronaldsway airport is progressing well and is on target for completion next year.

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an air pollution health alert for southwest and central Minnesota that runs through the end of Friday.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has extended the air pollution health alert set originally set to expire Friday night through Saturday evening...

Two Ohio air traffic controllers are being honored for their guidance to a pilot who suffered a lack of oxygen.

OBERLIN, Ohio (AP) - Two Ohio air traffic controllers are being honored for their guidance to a pilot who suffered a lack of oxygen. The pilot flying over Ypsilanti , Mich., couldn't control his jet last July 26, and his speech was slow and slurred.

National Air Traffic Controllers AssociationStephanie BevinsNational Air Traffic Controllers AssociationJay McCombs OBERLIN — The pilot's speech was slow and slurred. He couldn't control his Kalitta Learjet and two Oberlin air traffic controllers knew he was in trouble. Listen to the...

From USA TODAY's Airport Check-in column: "The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey has formed a coalition of business, tourism and airline officials to lobby for full funding of initiatives aimed at overhauling the country's air-traffic control system...

FEBRUARY 26, 2009 -- President Barack Obama today broadly outlined his administration's 2010 budget plan, which proposes to increase passenger fees for airport security, heavily invest in high-speed rail programs, increase subsidies for small community air service and further fund next-generation air traffic control projects.

Air traffic at both Beaufort County airports was at its lowest level in years last month, a sign the economy is grounding some recreational pilots, according to data released Thursday.

NAV CANADA today announced its traffic figures for the month of January 2009 as measured in weighted charging units for en-route, terminal and oceanic air navigation services, in comparison to the last fiscal year.

The new state-of-the-art air traffic control centre at Abu Dhabi International Airport will start operations on June 1, the General Civil Aviation Authority announced yesterday.

Dh300m Air Traffic Control Centre in Abu Dhabi

18 February 2009 The UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) yesterday inaugurated the Mena region's largest air traffic control complex built at a cost of Dh300 million.

ABU DHABI - The new state-of-the-art air traffic control centre at the Abu Dhabi International Airport will start operations on June 1, announced the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) on Tuesday.

The pilot of a doomed commuter plane didn't report any trouble to air traffic control before it crashed outside Buffalo, N.Y., but air traffic controllers quickly established that ice was building up on nearby planes also converging to land there.

The pilot of a doomed commuter plane didn't report any trouble to air traffic control before it crashed outside Buffalo, N.Y., but air traffic controllers quickly established that ice was building up on nearby planes also converging to land there. A recording of air traffic control radio transmissions Thursday night shows that a tower controller at Buffalo and one at Buffalo's Terminal Radar ...

(By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer) The pilot of a doomed commuter plane didn't report any trouble to air traffic control before it crashed outside Buffalo, N.Y., but air traffic controllers quickly established that ice was building up on nearby planes also converging to land there. A recording of air traffic control radio transmissions Thursday night shows that a tower controller ...

This is a transcript of the radio transmission between the air traffic control tower and planes in the Buffalo area, including Flight 3407, which crashed into a home, killing 50 people. Continental Airlines flight 3407 is referred to as Colgan...