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Russo's Art of the Airport Tower. The book is published in conjunction with a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM) exhibition opening this November of Russo's photographs of over eighty examples from around the world.

"A worker from Indian's southern state of Tamil Nadu was run over by a company bus on Monday night killing him on the spot near the new Airport Tower being built at the project site," an Indian worker told Gulf News on Tuesday morning with a condition of anonymity.

Back then, Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski explained that three of the buildings belong to the Transport Ministry, while the runway and the entire plot are owned by the Defense Ministry; at the same time, the airport tower is property of the Bulgarian Air Traffic Service Authority.

Bimalesh Karna, manager of Rescue Coordination Center at the airport, said the pilot reported to the airport tower that the plane had hit a bird.

He said Mr Claxton told him 'make the call' referring to a mayday message to the airport tower at nearby Fairwood Airport on Gower.

Top left: Reflections, at Stratford-upon-Avon, by Gethin Thomas Top right: MoveMe, at ArtsFest, by Graham Braidwood (Graham Braidwood Photography) Left: Traffic cones graveyard, by Alex Mason (Bikeygeek2010) Below: New Birmingham Airport tower under construction, by Andy Katsaitis (Dirty Clint357)

According to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), the industry's workforce breaks down into tower controllers, who work in the gassed-in airport towers managing traffic from the airport; terminal radar approach controllers., who work in radar rooms usually within the airport tower and are responsible for the departure, landing and maneuvering within the airport environment; and en route center controllers, who work in 24 centers across the country providing in-flight instructions, clearances and information about conditions during the en route portions of flights.

UNITED States Federal aviation officials are reviewing air traffic controller staffing at airports around the country after two airliners landed at Reagan National Airport, Washington, without clearance from the airport tower because they were unable to raise anyone.

Etihad and Abu Dhabi Airport Tower staff members were due to participate but had to withdraw due to other commitments however, both have expressed a willingness to attend next year.

As the NTSB stated, "The Teterboro Airport local controller did not correct the airplane pilot's read back of the Newark Liberty International Airport tower frequency because of the controller's nonpertinent telephone conversation and other transmissions that were occurring" and "did not provide continual traffic advisories to the airplane pilot, as required."

The airport tower controller, who brought 300 passengers aboard two aircraft to the brink of death, said, "I was detached", and launched a bargaining with pilots to hush up the incident.

But at least two major newspapers--AN NAHAR and AS SAFIR--reported Tuesday that the pilot of the ill-fated plane may have decided to act on his own when he ignored instructions from the Beirut airport tower. Defense Minister Elias Murr seemed to confirm the report in an interview with local television.

The National Weather Service (NWS), an agency under the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), provides staff on-site at each of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) en route centers--the facilities that control high-altitude flight outside the airport tower and terminal areas.

For a bird's eye view of the new airport tower, check out our video at www.journallive.co.uk