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recall the events and their accounts of the events which had just unfolded; each controller spoke on the tape for between five and ten minutes. While a union agreement was reached, in which the tape would be destroyed after the controllers would provide the information through written statements, a quality assurance manager for the facility hand-destroyed the tape a few months after its creation, before a written transcript of the tape could be produced and before anyone could listen to it â and the officials at New York Center never told higher-up FAA officials of the tape recording's existence.
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offices, moving them into a new, consolidated Long Island facility; these plans never went forward. Similar discussions continued over the years, with proposals for a new "New York
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