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Plane and Pilot
JANUARY 5, 2025
They were descending from cruise altitude to 8,000 feet with a clearance to fly direct to navigation fix TAMMI. Air traffic control, responding to the pilots odd transmission, simplified the clearance, issuing just a heading and an altitude. ATC announced loss of transponder data. It was the tail separating from the fuselage.
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