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A stranded United Airlines passenger sleeps in Terminal 1 at O'Hare International Airport Saturday, June 18, 2011 in Chicago. Thousands of flyers were stranded Friday night in airports across the country when United Airlines computers crashed, interrupting departures and reservations and disrupting the airline's websites. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) (AP)

HERBERT G. McCANN

A US Airways crew member makes his way to a security check at the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport.

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Passenger on the flight waiting a takeoff

One of the two flight recorders of Air France Flight 447, which crashed in 2009, is displayed to reporters in Le Bourget, near Paris, May 12, 2011.

Commercial pilot wearing uniform with epaulettes and hat half sitting idly, resting or stiking. (Monika Wisniewska)

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This image provided by NASA shows an image taken by a NASA MODIS satellite acquired at 1:15 a.m. EDT on May 22, 2011 shows the ash plume from the Grimsvotn volcano casts shadow to the west. The Grimsvotn volcano began erupting on Saturday, May 21 sending clouds of ash high into the air. The amount of ash spewing from the volcano tapered off dramatically on Tuesday, however, said Elin Jonasdottir, a forecaster at Iceland's meteorological office. The blue dots are data dropouts probably caused by the very bad light in the shadow of the plume. (AP Photo/NASA) (AP)

Slobodan Lekic, Melissa Eddy

**FILE**Jan Paladino, left, and Joseph Lepore, both U.S. pilots who were detained in Brazil for more than two months following a midair collision that killed 154 people, are greeted by friends and family upon returning to Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, N.Y, in this Dec. 9, 2006 file photo. Paladino and Lepore, indicted in June, 2007, by a Brazilian judge, are willing to testify in the case, but will not return next week to Brazil to do so, their American lawyer said Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, File) (Ed Betz)

U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama drink Guinness beer as they meet with local residents at Ollie Hayes pub in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral homeland of his great-great-great grandfather, Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

CORRECTS PHOTOG NAME FROM KRISTEN TO KRISTIN Smoke rises from the Grimsvotn volcano, Saturday, May 21, 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Iceland's most active volcano has started erupting, scientists said Saturday _ just over a year after another eruption on the North Atlantic island shut down European air traffic for days. Iceland's Meteorological Office confirmed that an eruption had begun at the Grimsvotn volcano, accompanied by a series of small earthquakes. (AP Photo/Halldora Kristin Unnarsdottir) (AP)

Jill Lawless, Gudjon Helgason

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President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, May 10, 2011, as he travels to the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas, to speak about immigration reform, Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

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Why do some pilots get the "glamorous" routes?

FILE - In this Monday, June 8, 2009 file photo released by Brazil's Air Force, Brazil's Navy sailors recover debris from the missing Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean. A year after Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic ocean, families of some of the 228 victims are demanding Monday May 31, 2010 that the search for the flight recorders, and for answers, continues. (AP Photo/Brazil's Air Force, file) ** NO SALES ** (Anonymous)

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Justin hiding out behind a cardboard cutout in "Never Say Never."

Stock Photo by Sean Locke
www.digitalplanetdesign.com (Sean Locke)

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Jim Salter, Jim Suhr

10 years on, airport security still not getting it

A damaged Airbus A380 belonging to Air France sits on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 in New York. The worldâs largest passenger aircraft clipped a much smaller Bombardier CRJ700 on a wet tarmac at JFK on Monday, April 11. No one was injured. (AP Photo/NYCAviation) (AP)

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