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David Cornell, Cedar Rapids ATCT On the evening of Jan. 18, 2010, 17-year veteran controller David Cornell received the call many controllers dread. Cessna N8584X was declaring an emergency. In an area suffering from low ceilings […]

David Whisnant, Anchorage TRACON Douglas Mruk phoned in for help on the early morning of June 30, and it was not from the sky, or even solid ground. Mruk found himself clinging to the edge of […]

Kevin McLaughlin, Southern California TRACON Air traffic controller Kevin McLaughlin was working the Shore radar position in the Coast Area at Southern California TRACON on July 29, 2011, when a student pilot flying a Cirrus SR20 […]

Frank Fisher and Greg Fleetwood, Corpus Christi Tower/TRACON When the pilot of a Cessna Centurion radioed in and reported engine troubles the morning of Sept. 6, 2011, a pair of veteran air traffic controllers at Corpus […]

Alvin Kent, Atlanta Center Five minutes. On Nov. 10, 2011, the pilot of a Cessna Skyhawk with a rough running engine was five minutes away from landing safely at an abandoned airport in rural southwestern Alabama. […]

Ken Greenwood, Josh Haviland, Ryan Herrick, Seattle TRACON “You know what? You just saved my life.” Some of the most important words an air traffic controller could ever hear were spoken by the pilot of a […]