Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120630:20:03:00
The plane is over the canadian coast when the pilot smells smoke in the cockpit. bill pickerell is the air traffic controller that day and the last person to have contact with flight 111. >> we were at the end of the shift. at approximately 10:15 p.m. local time, we were advised by one of the others sectors in the center, a swiss air flight had declared a pan because of smoke alert in the cockpit. >> a pan is an emergency that is not immediately life threatening.ç swiss air 111 is cleared for an emergency landing in nova scotia. >> it appeared to be a straight-forward operation. the radio tr...