Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20141229:22:27:00
Accommodate the pilot's request to change altitude. now the pilots are going to ask for a request because either they're getting bounced around that they got to get out of it or they foresee something coming on that they just don't want to go through and all of a sudden there's no contact. so a key portion here is why weren't they allowed to change altitude. what do you think of that? >> well you have to remember the primary duty of air traffic controller is aircraft separation. that's their sole responsibility. all of the other duties about providing weather to a pilot is secondary an first d...
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