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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 25 OctOber 2017

US probes 2nd Air Canada security event in California

prompting the FAA to is- “go around” for another
sue new rules for nighttime landing attempt. The con-
landings and control tower troller’s voice gets slower
staffing at the airport. and more emphatic. The
Sunday’s incident involved instructions were met with
a flight from Montreal. The silence, according to the
Airbus A320 was given initial audio clip posted at Live-
clearance to land when it ATC.net. The air traffic con-
was about 6 miles (10 kilo- trol supervisor then used
meters) from the airport, a flashing “red light gun”
FAA spokesman Ian Gregor shined out from the con-
said. The cockpit acknowl- trol tower windows toward
edged the instruction. the plane to alert the crew,
But air traffic control then Gregor said. Doing so is a
The air traffic control tower is in sight as a plane takes off from reversed its clearance, standard procedure when
San Francisco International Airport, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, in concerned a plane that an air crew does not re-
San Francisco. had just landed would not spond to radio instructions.
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) be off the runway in time. “Air Canada did not re-
By JOCELYN GECKER plane landed and the pilot “Air Canada Flight 781, spond to the verbal instruc-
Associated Press then radioed that he was go around,” the control- tions or to the light gun in-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Six having problems with his ler said, using terminology struction,” Gregor said.
times in a row, the control radio. telling the pilot to abort the The flight landed about
tower at San Francisco In- “That’s pretty evident,” the landing. 9:30 p.m.
ternational Airport ordered controller responded. Audio from the control tow- “After landing, the Air Can-
an incoming Air Canada The Federal Aviation Ad- er indicates the Air Cana- ada crew told the tower
plane to abort its landing ministration said Tuesday da flight was told six times they had a radio problem,”
— fearing another plane it is investigating the sec- in less than 35 seconds to Gregor said. q
might be on the runway. ond serious security issue in
Each time, the order went three months involving an
unanswered. Air Canada passenger jet
Finally, air traffic controllers landing at San Francisco
Sunday night took out an airport.
emergency red light and Last July, an Air Canada jet
aimed it outside their win- with 140 people on board
dow toward the jet to try nearly landed on a taxiway
to get the pilot’s attention. where four planes were
That didn’t work either, the waiting before takeoff,

Hispanic ranchers dealt blow

in lengthy battle over grazing

By SUSAN BRYAN trict James Browning dis-
Associated Press missed remaining counts
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — against the government,
A group of Hispanic ranch- finding that the National
ers has been dealt a blow Environmental Policy Act
in their years-long feud with does not require the Forest
the federal government Service to consider social
over grazing rights on land and economic effects that
in New Mexico that has are a direct result of an
been used by their families agency’s action.
for centuries. The law narrowly centers
Attorneys for the ranchers on effects to the physical
argued that the U.S. For- environment, the judge
est Service violated the law ruled. The ranchers say they
when deciding to limit graz- are disappointed and that
ing on historic land grants the Forest Service had a
even though the govern- responsibility to consider a
ment has recognized that history in which they claim
the descendants of Span- the property rights of His-
ish colonists have a unique panics have been ignored
relationship with the land. and an institutional bias has
The ranchers claimed the been allowed to persist. Ef-
agency failed to consider forts to get the Obama ad-
social and economic ef- ministration to address dis-
fects that would result from crimination and civil rights
limiting grazing in a region violations repeatedly went
where poverty and depen- unanswered, and many of
dence on the land for sub- the plaintiffs saw the court
sistence is high. case as a way to validate
In a recent ruling, U.S. Dis- their concerns.q