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Us. >> this may look like a grown man playing with a model airplane but he's an instructor at the faa's traffic control training facility and this is their low-tech classroom. a scale model of an airport runway with all kinds of different aircraft. do you think the traveling public would be surprised that the air traffic controllers who are directing their flights in and out of airports are actually learning to do it with model airplanes? >> i would say probably 80% of our time spent on the job training plugged in working live traffic. here's an opportunity where we can use simulation training...

Today, air traffic controllers. today, they have had a lot of bad press. to become one, the traping program is unusually intense. >> the faa must prepare thousands of men and women to replace the controllers that face mandatory retirement. we are going to go on a tour of a controller academy. good morning, casey. >> reporter: good morning, ali, and christine. back in the 1980s, president reagan fired striking air traffic controllers. all of those hired at that time are now facing mandatory retirement age. the agency is looking for up to 2000 people every year to staff air traffic control tower...

Thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> it's nice to be here. >> we're talking about operation dawn. how much progress has been made by coalition forces on the stated goal, which was to render gadhafi's air force and his ability to strike his own people useless? >> well, there's been a lot of discussion over the last 24 hours about casualties, collateral damage. and i think the first thing to remember is that in order to do the no-fly zone, casualties to pilots that are flying the coalition aircraft is just as important. and so the strikes that went in early, taking out the radars...

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It's ranked as number two and they transported cargo to dozen different destinations in the home country and also more than 60 other countries around the world. so it's an international airline. obviously it was flying internationally today. it operates a fleet of about 56 different jets including the boeing triple 7 which is the model airplane that was involved in this crash today. >> that is why there was a ten hour and 23 minute flight to san francisco. a little background on the san francisco international airport for you. this is big airport. those runways, they make a cross. you can see ...