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Controller Fred Rodgers was back in front of his radar screen at Pearson airport yesterday, days after he helped persuade a suicidal pilot, not to crash his light plane into the CN Tower or a downtown hospital
Controller Fred Rodgers was back in front of his radar screen at Pearson airport yesterday, days after he helped persuade a suicidal pilot, not to crash his light plane into the CN Tower or a downtown hospital

Controller Fred Rodgers was back in front of his radar screen at Pearson airport yesterday, days after he helped persuade a suicidal pilot, not to crash his light plane into the CN Tower or a downtown hospital

Date4/18/1989
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Glad to be back: Fighter pilot Emile Calderon gets a big hug from his mother, Eileen, at Pearson Airport last night on his return home from the gulf
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No. 17.-- Arctic relief expeditions. Cruises of the U.S.S. Rodgers and U.S.S. Alliance, and report of the Jeannette Relief Board. Cruise of the Rodgers...
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Controller watches planes on radar
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Mississauga student Donald Marshall, 19, left paralyzed by a West German highway crash, is lifted from his mini-hospital, an airliner that arrived at Toronto International Airport yesterday with nine seats removed to accommodate his stretcher
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CN President Robert Bandeen stands on the back of his railway car at the foot of the CN tower
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