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The public relations apparatus for the National Transportation Safety Board made a score with ABC and CBS when it provided animation and audiotape of a pair of narrowly avoided collisions on airport runways, one at San Francisco, one at Fort Lauderdale. The NTSB released the material as part of its campaign to put pressure on the Federal Aviation Administration to install collision warning radar systems in the cockpits of jetliners. ABC's Lisa Stark (no link) found board members "frustrated at the lack of progress." CBS' Nancy Cordes went on a test flight at Syracuse Airport to publicize the system, manufactured by Honeywell Flight Ops, that can issue the audio alert Runway Occupied to planes as they approach for landing. The system "will take at least three years to implement," Cordes told us, with no mention of the cost. NBC did not find the NTSB's pleas newsworthy.
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