How Your World Works

Episode 40: How to Avoid Flight Delays


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On today's show, Steve Abraham, a long time air traffic controller at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, tells us about his job--everything from how he get into it (and how that's changed), to the time he had two airplanes flying one on top of the other, to the fact that, yes, dangerous situations like that are very rare, even if delays aren't.
Musical thanks this episode to minusbaby for "Flying."
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