STOCKHOLM - The defense and security company Saab has developed technology for remote air traffic control, known as Remote Tower. The Swedish Transport Agency has now given the Swedish air navigation service provider, LFV, clearance that the critical flight safety aspects of Remote Tower to be commissioned. Sundsvall Remote Tower Center will therefore be in operation in autumn of 2014. The airport in Ornskoldsvik will then be the first in the world to be remotely controlled.<br />
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