AS PART OF THE ONGOING HAZCOLLECT TESTING...A NATIONAL
TEST MESSAGE WILL BE SENT ON TUESDAY MARCH 9 AT ABOUT
1915 UTC/UNIVERSAL COORDINATED TIME/ OR 215 PM EASTERN
STANDARD TIME TO TEST DISTRIBUTION OF EMERGENCY MESSAGES
OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE. THE NATIONAL TEST MESSAGE WILL
BE DISSEMINATED AS A SERIES OF STATE MESSAGES UNDER THE
FOLLOWING WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION /WMO/ AND
ADVANCED WEATHER INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM /AWIPS/
COMMUNICATION IDENTIFIERS:

WOUS41 KALY ALBADRNY FOR THE STATE OF NEW YORK

WOUS41 KPHI PHLADRNJ FOR THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY

WOUS41 KBOX BOSADRCT FOR THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

THE ADR ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE/FOLLOW UP TEST MESSAGES
MAY BE RELAYED BY EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM /EAS/
PARTICIPATING STATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH LOCAL AND STATE
EAS PLANS.

Child Directed Traffic at N.Y.'s JFK Airport, Air Traffic Controller Suspended

From FOXNEWS

An air traffic controller at New York's Kennedy Airport was suspended for allowing his young son to radio instructions to several pilots.

The few quick exchanges between the elementary-school- aged child and jets waiting to take off from JFK, one of the nation's busiest airports, appeared to delight pilots at the time.

"I wish I could bring my kid to work," one said, wistfully.

But the Federal Aviation Administration suspended the controller and a supervisor Wednesday after recordings of the calls were posted on the Internet, then reported on by a Boston television station.

"This lapse in judgment not only violated FAA's own policies, but common sense standards for professional conduct. These kinds of distractions are totally unacceptable," FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said in a statement. "This kind of behavior does not reflect the true caliber of our work force."

On the recording, which lasts about a minute, the boy appears to repeat instructions fed to him by his father. At no time does the child tell aircraft how to maneuver or where they should go.


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Published 2/11/10 on FoxNews

NEW YORK  —  A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers and the apocalyptic shroud of smoke and dust that settled over the city.

The images were taken from a police helicopter — the only photographers allowed in the airspace near the skyscrapers on Sept. 11, 2001. They were obtained by ABC after it filed a Freedom of Information Act request last year with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the federal agency that investigated the collapse.

The chief curator of the planned Sept. 11 museum pronounced the pictures "a phenomenal body of work."

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