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Former Bush aide shames Congress: More worried about airport delays than dead kids

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President George W. Bush’s former chief strategist Matthew Dowd on Sunday lashed out at Congress for moving so quickly to fund air traffic controllers because lawmakers were personally “about to get delayed at the airports,” while they couldn’t pass background checks to protect children from mass shootings. During a panel…

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Michelle Obama’s plane forced to abort a landing

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WASHINGTON – An official plane carrying US First Lady Michelle Obama had to abort a landing at an air force base near Washington on Monday due to an air traffic controller’s error, US media reported Tuesday. The aircraft carrying her was too close to a 200-ton military cargo jet and…

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Airliners fly in face of cyber attack scares

This finely choreographed global ballet of speeding metal, fuel and flesh moved almost five billion passengers in 2009, according to data from Airports Council International. But what if all those screens went blank? Inside the hot and stuffy glass bulb of the Hong Kong airport control tower, a dozen staff…

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