Sentence examples for lone controller from inspiring English sources

Reagan National Airport was the scene of another high-profile episode in March 2011 when two passenger planes were forced to land without clearance or guidance from the airport's control tower after a lone controller on duty after midnight fell asleep.

Adding to the picture of distraction at the Swiss air traffic control center, German investigators said today that the lone controller had to divert his attention just a few seconds after he gave his first warning in order to issue instructions to a third plane that was flying to the German city of Friedrichshafen.

As the Boeing reached Swiss airspace, a lone controller in Zurich was busy monitoring five planes on two screens.

The staffing move, which will begin immediately, comes after a lone controller at Reno-Tahoe International Airport failed to respond to a pilot of a medical flight who was trying to land early on Wednesday.

The lone controller on duty ordered the pilot of the Russian plane, a Tupolev Tu-154 operated by Bashkirian Airlines, to descend to avoid the cargo plane, a Boeing 757 operated by DHL Worldwide.

There's indeed something a bit odd about Caroline Hjelt of Icona Pop seen merely twisting a knob on a lone controller during the opening notes of the Swedish electro-pop duo's Late Night debut.

The lone Swiss controller, whose center's own computerized alarm system had been shut down for maintenance, had no machine to back him up.

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.

Rev. Bullock, the critic of the financial control board who also has a Ph.D. in political philosophy, has been deeply involved in a still-pending effort to overturn a state law that gives the governor the authority to appoint a lone financial controller.

Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 had taken off from Moscow at 7.48pm and was just south of Munich at 36,000ft when a lone air traffic controller at Zurich's privatised Skyguide service picked up the Tupolev-154 on his screen.

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