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Falls airport tower spared by FAA
Updated: Friday, 22 Mar 2013, 6:24 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 22 Mar 2013, 7:09 AM EDT
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) - The FAA is shutting down nearly 150 air traffic control towers at small airport around the country. But towers in Western New York have been spared.
The control tower at the Niagara Falls Airport was on a short list of towers that could be forced to close. An NFTA spokesman tells News 4 the tower will remain open.
If the tower had closed, the airport would have still been functional and planes could have still landed. They would instead have been guided in through the tower at the Buffalo Airport.
The FAA needed to close the towers to cut $637 million from its budget under the federal sequester.
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