AIR CARGO

Description: Booming overnight delivery air cargo services. Comments from frequent users. Purolator Courier, Federal Express planes. Wreckage, flames from small plane crash on Lonsdale Street in Dorchester.

Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Date Created: 06/26/1987

Aerial traffic surveillance

Description: Police will conduct aerial surveillance of highway traffic to detect speeders on holiday weekend. Small plane over Route 95. Radar. State police stopping drivers. William McCabe, public safety commissioner.

Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Date Created: 05/26/1988

Air New England

Description: Air New England ticket counter at Logan Airport. Planes parked at terminal. Passengers walk across tarmac to board. Inside cabin looking toward cockpit. “Flying Your Way” magazine in seat back with emergency procedures card. Twin engine taxis in, another taxis off. Nose of TWA L-1011.

Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Date Created: 02/21/1979

Air traffic control

Description: Handout tape from US Department of Transportation FAA on “National Airspace System Plan.” Brief look at air traffic control. Technological progress brings increasing detail and automation.

Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Air traffic problems

Description: Airline problems - chaos in crowded skies: too much traffic, increase of near misses and other errors.

Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Date Created: 08/20/1987

Airplane interior

Description: Tour of inside of airplane. Flight attendant shows beverage storage and food preparation galley. Seats, cockpit controls, fastening seatbelt. Exterior of TWA plane. Life vest pocket on seat back. Tray table, emergency exit sign.

Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Date Created: 09/20/1979