Short Final

Editorial Staff

Sunday, October 01, 2006 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

An air traffic controller temporarily forgot the name of a town while giving instructions to a Grumman RGG aircraft.
The pilot of the RGG aircraft promptly provided the missing town name to the controller.
The controller humorously acknowledged their lapse, asking others on the frequency to disregard the incident, which was met with cooperative responses from other pilots.

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The sound of cooperation.

Departing out of Edmonton AB, CYXD, Friday 27 Sept 06 I was talking to departure and after getting north a way…

City Center: Grumman RGG, I see you over [pause] I forgot the name of the town.

RGG: Morinville

City center: Right. Cleared enroute, radar service is terminated.

City Center: Everybody on frequency pretend they didn’t hear that.

Unknown: Roger

RGG: Wilco.