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Topic: Flight

The silhouette of a commercial airplane flies over skyscrapers (Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Foul food sends Delta flight back to LA

Francesca Giangiulio
Empty airplane seats in the cabin in sunset light (Getty Images / Anton Petrus)

Spirit "incorrectly boards" 6-year-old

Ashlie D. Stevens
Stressed woman in the airport (Getty Images/kieferpix)

Here's why flying is so miserable

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Vice President Kamala Harris board an airplane after an official visit to Mexico at Benito Juarez International Airport on June 08, 2021 in Mexico City, Mexico. The vice president was concluding her first trip abroad in an effort to address migration, declaring the need to assert control over the southern border but taking criticism for the stance at home. (Hector Vivas/Getty Images)

Harris delayed by "Havana syndrome"

Jon Skolnik
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In this concept illustration provided by NASA, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet's surface. (Photo illustration by NASA via Getty Images)

Ingenuity preps for takeoff on Mars

Nicole Karlis
Ted Cruz holds his Texas mask over his face (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

#CanCruz: Ted leaves Texas in the dark

Jon Skolnik
Man's hand holding a glass with transparent liquid (water or liquor), inside an airplane (Getty Images)

No alcohol on planes?

Matthew Rozsa

Experience the joy of flight

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Sexual assault on planes is too common

Emily C. Bell - Alternet
Scanning electron microscopic image of Ebola virions (Public Library of Science)

Ebola patient was on flight

Joanna Rothkopf
A young Malaysian boy prays, at an event for the missing Malaysia Airline, MH370, at a shopping mall, in Petaling Jaya, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. A coalition of 26 countries, including Thailand, are looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished March 8 with 239 people aboard on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Search crews are scouring two giant arcs of territory amounting to the size of Australia — half of it in the remote seas of the southern Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul) (AP)

Sarah Gray

Helen Thompson - Smithsonian.com
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Denzel Washington in "Flight"

Can a hero be a cokehead?

Andrew O'Hehir
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