Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20141230:12:18:00
Maybet read the radar wrong. like i said other pilots hours or minutes would have made it through that route. >> butill, thank you very much. i want to add, guys a lot of other pilots had the same idea. if you read the transcript of the conversation between the pilot and air traffic controller he requested to move to a higher altitude. the air traffic controller said hold off. there's too many planes that high at that level. so they were saying other pilots had obviously done the same thing. it took a couple minutes for the approval to be granted. and when they granted the approval, they heard...
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