FAA Sends Temporary Air Traffic Control Tower to Haiti

by Gary Kopycinski on January 22, 2010

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Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2010.

At the request of the Haitian government, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) dispatched a portable, temporary control tower to Haiti today to help assist with aircraft operations at Port-au-Prince International Airport. The tower is being transported aboard a large, chartered cargo aircraft and FAA technicians will install and prepare it for service which will take about 48 hours once it arrives in Port-au-Prince.

“This tower is a visible…