There are myriad reasons for flight delays, from bad weather to technical problems with an aircraft.To the list, reveals one former air traffic controller, can be added petty revenge.Writing in his riveting book Life With A View – Memoir of an Air Traffic Controller, Robin A. Smith reveals that pilots who disobey instructions from air traffic controllers or don’t pay close enough attention to them can be routed off course as punishment. These changes in course are called ‘delay vectors’ in the business, Smith explains.
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