("H.P." wrote)
September 29, 2005
Near Miss for 2 Jets on a Las Vegas Runway
By MATTHEW L. WALD

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 - An America West passenger jet taking off from Las
Vegas missed hitting an Air Canada jet by about 100 feet last Thursday
night, according to a preliminary report, because a controller in the
tower confused two planes and issued conflicting instructions.

[snip]
He said, as did others, that the aviation agency had computer systems in
place...

The aviation agency has a system for seeing through clouds and rain, using
signals given off by the planes themselves, as opposed to radar, which
bounces electromagnetic energy off the planes' skins. But the agency has
not installed it at Kennedy.


I thought it was odd, in a creapy kind of way, that the reporter kept
referring to it as 'the agency.' Very Matt Helm, ...or Our Man Flint. Either
one.


Montblack