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News Sources — Part II
Aviation and Air Traffic Control
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Other Aviation Sites
Nonprofit organization representing more than 500 airports around the world.
Detailed information about air accidents, including videos, cockpit and ATC voice recordings, and feature articles.
Since 1995, this Jacksonville, Florida, band has performed jazz, rock and new age music on CDs and in concert. Most of the players are controllers—and they’ve raised $54,000 for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Online airport directory, plus a variety of aviation links.
Air Line Pilots Association. News and perspective from the union representing 58,000 pilots in the U.S. and Canada.
Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association. Industry news and background information from a 360,000-member organization that represents half of all pilots in the U.S.
Communications and air traffic management vendor.
Excellent, comprehensive source of ATC information.
Collection of ATC sites from around the world.
Another site devoted to air accidents, with detailed information, recordings, video and more.
The Aviation
Home Page		 provides links to numerous flying organizations and sponsors a Q&A forum for pilots / non-pilots and controllers.
Up-to-date and comprehensive information about airliner accidents worldwide. Searchable database since 1945.
Home of the company’s Air Traffic Management unit.
Experimental Aircraft Association. 170,000-member group representing pilots from around the world.
Federal Aviation Administration. Official site of the U.S. government agency charged with overseeing air safety.
Current and historical statistics on air traffic, delays, pilots and many other aspects of aviation.
Information and links about the Wright Brothers National Memorial and the 100th anniversary of flight in 2003.
International Civil Aviation Organization.
Communications and air traffic management vendor.
National Transportation Safety Board.
Communications and air traffic management vendor.
Information and discussion about air traffic control.

Airport information

View from the top: United Airlines handles about 600 flights a day at its hub in Chicago. Runway 14 Right / 32 Left—O’Hare Airport’s longest at 13,000 feet—angles across the top of the photograph in this view looking northwest from the tower cab.
 

O’Hare International Airport: Statistics / Traveler Info

TRACON is based at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. O’Hare’s central location has enabled it to maintain the title of “world’s busiest airport” for years. However, in the late 1990s, Atlanta Hartsfield edged out Chicago for the top spot by accommodating more than 73 million passengers annually, about 1 million more than O’Hare. In early 2001, O’Hare reclaimed its coveted crown, handling about 2,500 takeoffs and landings a day or an average of more than 100 an hour.

Los Angeles International Airport

As the largest gateway to the Pacific Rim from the West Coast, LAX handles airplanes from six continents carrying 61 million passengers a year, including 15 million international travelers.

Van Nuys Airport

O’Hare may be one of the premiere provinces for commercial planes, but Van Nuys Airport in California’s San Fernando Valley ranks as the world’s busiest for general aviation. There were more than 600,000 operations in 1999