Question for you. What really struck me was the way the controller at Teterboro stepped in and said they could take the plane, and give him runway #1 immediately. There was litrerally no time...how was that possible?
>> Question for you. What really struck me was the way the controller at Teterboro stepped in and said they could take the plane, and give him runway #1 immediately. There was litrerally no time...how was that possible?
The recording you hear was everything the LGA departure controller said or listened to, both on the departure control frequency and on the land lines. He talked to the TEB approach controller on the landline, who, since he was controlling TEB traffic, knew “real time” who was where in his airspace (and on the TEB runway). Notice the controllers first give Cactus a landing into the wind (the preferred way), but when Cactus says “no”, give him anything he wants.
Well, he knows where USAir is coming from, he just breaks off all approaches to the west, clears the runways, calls out the trucks & waits.