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On a blustery winter day in January 2022, N3039L, a Socata Tobago, was inbound for Manassas Airport (HEF), with snow actively falling and winds roaring. The aircraft began to lose altitude. NATCA member Eric Lomascolo was working radar at Potomac Consolidated TRACON (PCT), and attempted to get the pilot on the ground as soon as possible, but the aircraft overshot the localizer. This made Eric and his brother David, also a PCT member, aware that the pilot needed assistance. An emergency was declared on the pilot's behalf. The brothers utilized their weather awareness to set the pilot up for a second and then a third approach, as the pilot reported, “I’m getting bounced all over the place sir, very violently.”
Read the full story of this save, for which Eastern Regional Vice President Brian Shallenberger presented David and Eric with the 2022 Archie League Medal of Safety Award for the Eastern Region at #NATCACFS.
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