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Small Airport Rules

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Fourteen people died this week when a United Express turbo-prop and a private plane crashed at a small airport in Quincy, Illinois.
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Like most of the more than 18,000 airports in the United States, the Quincy airport did not have a control tower.
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Noah talks with Phil Boyer, president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, about how small airports operate. Fourteen people died this week when a United Express turbo-prop and a private plane crashed at a small airport in Quincy, Illinois. Like most of the more than 18,000 airports in the United States, the Quincy airport did not have a control tower. Most such airports have good safety records. Boyer explains how pilots communciate with one another at non-towered airports to avoid accidents. They rely on radio...and their own eyes.

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