Potentially "disastrous" mid-air catastrophe averted thanks to air traffic controller
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Two American Airlines jets over Phoenix with the same flight number caused confusion in the tower as radar showed the planes headed in the same direction. Matt Rivers reports on the quick-thinking air traffic controller credited with averting catastrophe.
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