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Controller Praised For Saving Hypoxic Pilot

Veteran controller LouElla Hollingsworth was one of several controllers to receive Natca's Archie League Medals of Safety.

By AIN Staff • AIN Staff

March 25, 2013

LouElla Hollingsworth, a veteran air traffic controller with 29 years’ experience, saved the pilot of a Piaggio Avanti when she recognized signs of hypoxia in his radio transmissions on November 16 last year. Thanks to Hollingsworth’s quick thinking as a Fort Worth Center controller in Texas, she convinced the pilot to descend to a lower altitude where the oxygen level was suitable for breathing.

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