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Passengers, flight attendants and pilots fell victim of an American airlines flight that crashed into an airfield near the airport. The crash ignited a huge fireball. All passengers and crew died in the disaster.
CHICAGO
(Reuters) - "Ghost" airplanes, or images of airplanes that do not
exist or are far away, are popping up with more frequency on the radar screens
that control air traffic at Chicago's
O'Hare Airport,
it was reported Saturday. On a few occasions, air traffic controllers
unnecessarily ordered pilots to make dangerous sudden turns or descents to avoid
the false radar images, but no near collisions have occurred, the Chicago
Sun Times
reported in its Sunday edition.
"The ghosting is a complete terror for the air traffic controllers," Charles
Bunting,
president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association in Elgin,
Illinois, told the paper.
Air traffic controllers said at least 12 "ghost" images have appeared
over the last few weeks at the Terminal Radar Approach Control facility in
Elgin. That facility handles the traffic for O'Hare, which is the world's second
busiest airport.
Passengers should not worry about the radar glitches, a spokesman for the U.S.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told the paper.
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