CNNW CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield May 21, 2016
Conversation between pilot and air Traffic Control, it sounds routine, but you tell me what it means when he says squawk number 7624 and then followed by numbers. At what stage does this kind of contact tell you they are in flight. Youre absolutely right, fredricka, this is routine conversation with a professional colleague. What hes basically saying, looking at the screen here, is hes acknowledging a frequency change, 120 decimal 725, and hes also acknowledging the fact that theyre going over to another air Traffic Control center, which in this particular case, it started with a p, i dont hav...