The Nation : Wind Shear Detectors Fail
Recent failures in equipment used to detect wind shear at Detroit Metropolitan Airport reflect growing neglect of the nation’s air traffic control system, union officials representing airport technicians said. Poor weather has disabled the equipment four times in the last three months, said Terrence Apkarian, president of Local 106 of the Professional Airways System Specialists. A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said that the problems at the airport were being corrected and that the faulty equipment never endangered air traffic.
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