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Thursday, October 08, 2009
NTSB Safety Recommendation A-09-112
The National Transportation Safety Board recommends the following to the Federal Aviation Administration:
Modify Federal Aviation Administration radar data processing systems so that air traffic controllers can instruct the systems to process the discrete transponder code of an aircraft experiencing an emergency as if it were an emergency transponder code. (A-09-112)
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http://www.ntsb.gov/recs/letters/2009/A09_112.pdf
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