{"id":2420,"date":"2010-06-15T21:08:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T01:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:12:52","slug":"9-11-aa-77-detailed-work-on-the-radar-coverage-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?p=2420","title":{"rendered":"9-11:  AA 77; detailed work on the radar coverage issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a dedicated group of individuals who are working diligently and thoroughly to document technical information pertaining to the flight of AA 77. \u00a0Their work builds on the work of the Commission and extends that work in depth and detail. One such individual is Tom Lusch whose interest is the radar coverage issue. \u00a0Here is a portion of his <em>vitae.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #1a00fa;\">Tom Lusch is a Certified Professional Controller with over 28 years of experience in the enroute, terminal, and tower options of the Federal Aviation Administration&#8217;s air traffic control system. \u00a0In 1992, a paper he authored, &#8220;R<strong>eal Targets &#8211; Unreal Displays: The inadvertent suppression of critical radar data<\/strong>&#8221; was republished in the Journal of Air Traffic Control <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>(<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0aG9tYXNnbHVzY2h8Z3g6Nzg3NmNiNGRhODU2ZDFkYg\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>link<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #1a00fa;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>)<\/strong><\/span> His treatise focused on the low-altitude environment.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #1a00fa;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #1a00fa;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As demonstrated with the vanishing of AA 77 from the screens at Indianapolis Center, the processing of multiple radar data remained a challenge for the FAA. \u00a0On his web site he counters the contention that \u00a0there was <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1a00fa;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c&#8230;poor primary coverage where American 77 was flying.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0aG9tYXNnbHVzY2h8Z3g6NGMyMWI2M2ZmMTIwNTAzZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>(<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0aG9tYXNnbHVzY2h8Z3g6NGMyMWI2M2ZmMTIwNTAzZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>link<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlusch.com\/tomlusch\/AAL77.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>. \u00a0His thesis is that the problem was radar data processing not radar coverage.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #1a00fa;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a dedicated group of individuals who are working diligently and thoroughly to document technical information pertaining to the flight of AA 77. \u00a0Their work builds on the work of the Commission and extends that work in depth and detail. One such individual is Tom Lusch whose interest is the radar coverage issue. \u00a0Here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?p=2420\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9-11:  AA 77; detailed work on the radar coverage issue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aa-77"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7314,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/7314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}