On a side note, it was this event which sparked ATC Emergency Contingency Training (ECT), now known as TRUCE (TRaining for Unusual CircumstancEs) for which we now occasionally have Pilots attend to drum up some realistic emergency situations and then watch us sweat!! TRUCE is now a mandatory event every year where we get to try out what to do if the ultimate happens, not every day you get complete failures, best try it out somewhere!!!
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