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- On stormy nights, air traffic controllers hear pilots talking about running out of fuel all the time.Chapter 7 (38% in)
- The air traffic controller with whom Klotz was speaking testified later that he "just took it as a passing comment."Chapter 7 (38% in)
- According to another of the controllers who handled 052 that night, Klotz spoke "in a very nonchalant manner There was no urgency in the voice."Chapter 7 (39% in)
- No mention of the magic word "emergency," which is what air traffic controllers are trained to listen for.Chapter 7 (49% in)
- The plane's air traffic controller calls out one last time.Chapter 7 (51% in)
- "The thing you have to understand about that crash," Ratwatte said, "is that New York air traffic controllers are famous for being rude, aggressive, and bullying.Chapter 7 (51% in)
- Ratwatte continued: "All the guys had to do was tell the controller, 'We don't have the fuel to comply with what you are trying to do/ All they had to do was say, 'We can't do that.Chapter 7 (54% in)
- They weren't able to put that across to the controller.Chapter 7 (55% in)
- That's what Ratwatte meant when he said that no American would have been so fatally intimidated by the controllers at Kennedy Airport.Chapter 7 (64% in)
- When push comes to shove, Americans fall back on their American-ness, and that American-ness means that the air traffic controller is thought of as an equal.Chapter 7 (64% in)
- Then there's the domineering Kennedy Airport air traffic controllers ordering the planes around.Chapter 7 (66% in)
- The controllers, though, aren't Colombian.Chapter 7 (67% in)
- There is a point in the transcript where the cultural miscommunication between the controllers and Klotz becomes so evident that it is almost painful to read.Chapter 7 (67% in)
- Thank you very much" in response to the controller's question about their fuel state.Chapter 7 (67% in)
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