The view from the cockpit
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When you end up sitting on an airplane for six hours (much of it on the ground), what's going on up there in the cockpit?
A pilot/blogger at a regional airline offers a fascinating glimpse of his flight during that snowstorm a week and a half ago, full of in-air diversions and on-the-ground gridlock, security agents that go home, and passengers who can't get food or drink.
It's a first-hand account of just how broken the nation's air-traffic system is.
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