Airmen watch Haiti’s airspace
January 29th, 2010
The recent arrival of Air National Guard air traffic controllers in Haiti has greatly increased the number of flights safely entering and leaving the country's air space.
Twelve Air Guard air traffic controllers and an airfield operations officer are deployed to Haiti, said Scott Duke, the chief of the Air National Guard's airfield services division, and additional air traffic control assets from the Air Guard are scheduled to arrive within the next few days.
"The test of how well we are assisting and helping with the ongoing operation can be found in the numbers," Mr. Duke said. "Before our presence, the daily count for arrival aircraft was around 90 per day." By (Jan. 28), he added, the number of daily operations had jumped to 120.
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Twelve Air Guard air traffic controllers and an airfield operations officer are deployed to Haiti, said Scott Duke, the chief of the Air National Guard's airfield services division, and additional air traffic control assets from the Air Guard are scheduled to arrive within the next few days.
"The test of how well we are assisting and helping with the ongoing operation can be found in the numbers," Mr. Duke said. "Before our presence, the daily count for arrival aircraft was around 90 per day." By (Jan. 28), he added, the number of daily operations had jumped to 120.
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