Officials of the Federal Aviation Administration have tested the Croatian radio beacon that was presumably being used by the plane carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown when it crashed on approach to the Dubrovnik airport and " found the landing beacon signal to be functioning properly during the tests, " the Air Force said Tuesday.
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Two dropships are deployed to the Primary Operations Complex ( POC ), but they are separated by hurricane winds and one is damaged, and they are forced to take a passage route to one of the abandoned landing beacons far away from the POC . It falls to Harrison to restore power and activate the landing beacon.
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Two dropships are deployed to the Primary Operations Complex ( POC ), but they are separated by hurricane winds and one is damaged, and they are forced to take a passage route to one of the abandoned landing beacons far away from the POC . It falls to Harrison to restore power and activate the landing beacon.
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Giving weight to the theory of pilot error, the American TV network NBC reported Thursday evening that a preliminary analysis of the voice and flight-data recorders showed the pilot mistook a landing beacon on a hilltop 5 kms ( 3 miles ) from the airport for the airport itself, and came in for landing at that site as if nothing were amiss.
