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Air traffic control

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Air traffic control

Air traffic controller Mal Sole is working at the radar console in the civil aviation operations building, Wellington, in 1991. Radar information allows controllers to advise pilots before and during flights, and to monitor air traffic.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1987/0651/5

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Nancy Swarbrick, Air crashes – Promoting safety, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6539/air-traffic-control (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 2 March 2009.