When The Louisiana Superdome hosted Super Bowl XII on January 15,1978, many of the 75,000 fans in attendance traveled to New Orleans by airplane. Most of them had no idea they were part of another big game: the one in the air, with plays and tactics executed by air traffic control. In the late 1970s New Orleans International Airport was popularly known as Moisant Field. Its air traffic control facility was Moisant tower, a 12-story building located in the middle of Concourse C. The ground floor housed New Orleans approach control, which managed the airspace within a (roughly) 35-mile radius of the airport. The top floor was crowned by the tower cab, the glass pentagon where controllers worked local airport traffic.
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