What Happens When a Plane's Radio Dies
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A plane's radio dies. The pilot can't hear the tower, and the tower can't hear the pilot. So the controller picks up a lamp, aims it at the aircraft, and shines a green light. That light is the entire clearance. Behind the glass of every control tower is a light gun, and it speaks a strict little language: green, red and white, steady or flashing, meaning different things in the air and on the ground. The pilot answers without a word — by rocking the wings. It goes back to 1929, when America's first air traffic controller stood on an airfield with a wheelbarrow and two flags. When a radio f
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