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Every day, more than ninety thousand commercial flights take off around the world. Ninety thousand flights that need to be flown and guided safely from take-off to landing in all kinds of weather conditions. We all know the role of pilots in air travel, but how many of us know anything about air traffic control? And yet their job is one of the most stressful in the world, their responsibility enormous. Every minute of every day, air traffic controllers hold the lives of thousands of people in their hands. They work in places the public never visits. At the heart of the main control centres, this documentary will follow an Air France flight from take-off at New York’s JFK airport – the busiest airspace in the world – to its landing at Paris’ Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport – the second busiest airport in Europe. An exclusive, in-depth investigation into the wild and secret world of the heroes of the air. Documentary: Controlling the Skies Directed by: Jon Kalina Production: Idéacom International & Galaxie Presse #documentary #documentaries #documentary #sky #airplane #airport