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Key Takeaways:

  • Following a playoff game between Green Bay and Seattle in Seattle, a Boeing Field air traffic controller made a humorous announcement during the ATIS broadcast.
  • The controller instructed pilots to report having "information 'Russell Wilson'" upon initial contact with ATC.
  • This lighthearted, game-related remark was found amusing by Seahawks fans who had flown in for the game.
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A little late, perhaps, but we couldn’t pass this one up.

After the National Conference playoff game between Green Bay and Seattle in Seattle Sunday night, the Boeing Field ATIS went through the normal weather, approach, and NOTAMS, and at the end the controller said:

“On initial contact inform ATC you have information ‘Russell Wilson.'”

All the Seahawks fans that had flown in for the game thought it was pretty funny.


Bill Webber

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