Sentence examples for controller on land from inspiring English sources
10 06:00 Controller calls controller on land line to say Flight 93 is down.
Investigators, however, believe the plane was on the final approach to a small airport in East Hartford and had been cleared by air traffic controllers to land, one of the federal officials said.
During the 12-minute recording, the pilot also says that the plane had experienced "total electrical failure" and repeatedly requests flight vectors, indications from the air traffic controller, on how to land.
It's an "excellent preliminary study," that could help mission controllers zero in on landing sites for future missions that feature, say, surface ice of sufficient depth, says astrobiologist Andrew Steele of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C.
Russian officials said the Polish president's crew tried to land despite warnings from Russian air traffic controllers on the ground in Smolensk; Polish analysts maintained that the Russian controllers should not have allowed the approach.
Two airliners landed in error at Reagan National Airport on March 23 after the lone tower controller on a midnight shift fell asleep and regional officials reacted incorrectly, a federal investigation concluded.
The team upgraded Salto's controller to make it far more precise on landing, a feat that was almost impossible using the previous controller system, SLIP.
Two passenger airliners landed at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington without clearance or guidance from the airport's control tower early Wednesday, and officials were looking into the possibility that the air traffic controller on duty had fallen asleep.
