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The Garmin Autoland system was successfully activated for the first time in-service on a King Air B200 after a loss of pressurization, automatically navigating and landing the aircraft at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, demonstrating the system's operational reliability in an emergency situation.
A 911 outage affecting multiple states has prompted calls for increased modernization and regulation of the emergency system, with experts emphasizing the need for backups, redundancy, and resilient backups to prevent such outages. The outage, reportedly caused by a third-party company installing a light pole, left millions without emergency access for about 2½ hours, prompting an FCC investigation. Experts stress the need for a more unified, Next Generation 911 system and increased regulation at both state and federal levels to prevent similar incidents in the future.