During a subsequent German investigation, an officer identified as “ Sniper No. 2 ” stated: “ I am of the opinion that I am not a sharpshooter .” The five snipers were deployed around the airport — three on the roof of the control tower, one hidden behind a service truck and one behind a small signal tower at ground level — but none of them had any special training.

The members of the crisis team — Schreiber, Genscher, Merk and Schreiber's deputy Georg Wolf — supervised and observed the attempted rescue from the airport control tower.

As they ran past the control tower, Sniper 3 took one last opportunity to eliminate Issa, which would have left the group leaderless.

A German policeman in the control tower, Anton Fliegerbauer, was killed by the gunfire.

The 2006 National Geographic Channel's Seconds From Disaster profile on the massacre stated that the helicopters were supposed to land sideways and to the west of the control tower, a maneuver which would have allowed the snipers clear shots into them as the kidnappers threw open the helicopter doors.

Instead, the helicopters were landed facing the control tower and at the centre of the airstrip.

This not only gave them a place to hide after the gunfight began, but put Snipers 1 and 2 in the line of fire of the other three snipers on the control tower.

The only contact the snipers had with the operational leadership was with Georg Wolf, who was lying next to the three snipers on the control tower giving orders directly to them.

As mentioned earlier, " Sniper 2 ", who was stationed behind the signal tower, wound up directly in the line of fire of his fellow snipers on the control tower, without any protective gear and without any other police being aware of his location.

The plan failed after soldiers in Karachi surrounded the airport control tower.

Many schools, businesses, hospitals, and government buildings lost their roofs, while the airport experienced severe damage to its main terminal and control tower, limiting flights to the daytime.

Juba airport runways were rebuilt by a loan from the European Development Fund, but the control tower and navigational equipment remained incomplete.

The northern end of the Polderbaan, the name of the last runway to be constructed, is north of the control tower, causing lengthy taxi times ( up to 20 min ) to the terminal.

The Schiphol Air traffic control tower, with a height of, was the tallest in the world when constructed in 1991.

The air traffic control tower at Schiphol in 1960

* March 26 – The control tower and some other facilities of New Tokyo International Airport, which was scheduled to open on March 31, are illegally occupied and damaged by terrorist attack by New Left activists, being forced to reschedule its opening date to May 20.

Air traffic control responsibilities at airports are usually divided into at least two main areas: ground and tower, though a single controller may work both stations.

Example: an airport control tower to the airport's fire station or fire dispatch center.

The water tower reduces the need for electrical consumption of cycling pumps and thus the need for an expensive pump control system, as this system would have to be sized sufficiently to give the same pressure at high flow rates.

Using wireless sensor networks to monitor water levels inside the tower allows municipalities to automatically monitor and control pumps without installing and maintaining expensive data cables.

For high-fidelity flight simulation, the division operates the world's largest flight simulator ( the Vertical Motion Simulator ), a Level-D 747-400 simulator, and a panoramic air traffic control tower simulator.

ILM added a control tower, Nazi banners, vintage automobiles and a sign stating " Berlin Flughafen ".

When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found, and the war came.

This simple design gave very nice smooth linear control and was highly reliable.

The election gave Democrats full control of the United States Congress, the first time one party controlled both the executive and legislative branches since Democrats held the 95th United States Congress during the Jimmy Carter presidency in the late 1970s.

The election of Carlos Menem to the Argentine Presidency in May 1989, however, resulted in an agreement between the President-elect and Jorge Born that gave the company partial control over national economic policy.

Thus, Octavian's victory at the Battle of Actium gave him sole and uncontested control of " Mare Nostrum " ( Our Sea i. e. the Roman Mediterannean ) and he became " Augustus Caesar " and the " first citizen " of Rome.

The " revolutionary " arrangement gave the four partners complete control over their pictures, which they were to fund personally.

Transport phenomena gave an analytical approach to chemical engineering while PSE focused on its synthetic elements, such as control system and process design.

With no backboard or sidewalk curb to hit against, this gave rise to presumed methods of dice control, of which the best was known as the " army blanket roll.

He came to an agreement with Egmont in December of the same year, which gave him a bit more control over the stories and the manner in which they were publicized.

It gave students access to their education records, an opportunity to seek to have the records amended, and some control over the disclosure of information from the records.

While Fascism claimed that corporatism gave workers power alongside employer in workplaces in reality the concept of " Fuhrerprinzip " gave employers and State-appointed workplace managers absolute control over the workplace as dictated by the State-owned German Labor Front ; based on the Social Darwinist ideology that certain individuals are " gifted " and " born to rule ", employers thought to be part of that group.

Barely a month later, on May 2, he signed a treaty of amity with the Italians, which apparently gave them control over Eritrea, the Red Sea coast to the northeast of Ethiopia, in return for recognition of Menelik's rule.

Control of Gibraltar gave the Allied Powers control of the entry to the Mediterranean Sea ( the other side of the Strait being Spanish territory, and thus non-belligerent ).

French domination was assured by the defeat in 1898 of the armies of Samori Touré, Mansa ( or Emperor ) of the Ouassoulou state and leader of Malinké descent, which gave France control of what today is Guinea and adjacent areas.

This move gave Himmler operational control over Germany's entire detective force.

The Cuban-American Treaty gave, among other things, the Republic of Cuba ultimate sovereignty over Guantánamo Bay while granting the United States " complete jurisdiction and control " of the area for coaling and naval stations.

This move gave Himmler operational control over Germany's entire detective force.

That same year, Austria was unified with Nazi Germany in the Anschluss, and the Munich Agreement gave Nazi Germany control over the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia.

Opposition to Indonesian administration of Irian Jaya ( later known as Papua ) gave rise to small-scale guerrilla activity in the years following Jakarta's assumption of control.

It was found by investigators from the Environmental Investigation Agency ( EIA ) that CITES sales of stockpiles from Singapore and Burundi ( 270 tonnes and 89. 5 tonnes respectively ) had created a system which increased the value of ivory on the international market, rewarded international smugglers and gave them the ability to control the trade and continue smuggling new ivory.

The British Parliament, disturbed by the idea that a great business concern, interested primarily in profit, was controlling the destinies of millions of people, passed acts in 1773 and 1784 that gave itself the power to control company policies and to appoint the highest company official in India, the Governor-General.

The German Democratic Republic was declared on 7 October 1949, with a new constitution which enshrined socialism and gave the Soviet-controlled Socialist Unity Party ( SED ) control.