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High-tech navigation system may change future of airplane traffic

SEATTLE — On a clear mid-August day at about 3 a.m., an Alaska Airlines 737 heading to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport took a radical turn.

Jets typically begin their approach to Sea-Tac as many as 20 miles north of the runway and fly south over Seattle’s residential neighborhoods, roughly....

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