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See how air traffic controllers at Frankfurt Airport, Germany manage the rush hour traffic in the skies
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Also known as: ATC, air traffic control
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air-traffic control, the supervision of the movements of all aircraft, both in the air and on the ground, in the vicinity of an airport. See traffic control.