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Patrick Smith is an airline pilot who writes the popular Ask the Pilot column for Salon.

The air flow from the wing of this agricultural plane is made visible by a technique that uses colored smoke rising from the ground. (Wikipedia/NASA)

Into the vortex

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Charlton Heston in "Airport 1975" (disastermovieworld.com)

This is Warsaw, not Hollywood

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A Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines makes an emergency landing at Warsaw airport, Nov. 1, 2011. (AP)

Safe outcome in Warsaw belly landing

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Oh my god, they’re duct-taping our plane!

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A Boeing 787

What makes a great-looking jetliner?

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-264874p1.html'>hbas</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My peculiar route to pilothood

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-77552p1.html'>Tatiana Popova</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The imaginary perils of flying

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A Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft lands for delivery to All Nippon Airways (ANA) of Japan at Haneda airport in Tokyo September 28, 2011. (Toru Hanai / Reuters)

Oops! Wrong button

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An El Al 767 and an Iran Air jet parked next to each other at an airport in Bangkok. (Patrick Smith/Salon)

Airline livery design hits bottom

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Why I’m not watching “Pan Am”

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A TSA worker inspects luggage at Los Angeles International Airport.

The dreaded bag check

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Cockpit blues

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In this Aug. 3, 2011 photo, airline passengers go through the Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in Atlanta. The TSA was created after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser) (AP)

What’s the takeaway from Sept. 11?

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The paperless cockpit is here

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Trees blow in a gust of wind, early Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in New York as Hurricane Irene approaches the region. Irene has the potential to cause billions of dollars in damage along a densely populated arc that includes Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and beyond. At least 65 million people could be affected. (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof) (AP)

Hurricane Irene shuts down the country’s busiest air corridor

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The 40-year-old control tower at LaGuardia.

Our airports ain’t what they used to be

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Is there a remotely piloted jetliner in the foreseeable future?

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finance concept. money plane over sky with clouds (Alexander Kalina)

Flying is cheap

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The myth of the pilotless commercial plane: Make it stop!

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Rescue workers inspect a Caribbean Airlines jet after it skidded off the runway at Cheddi Jagan International airport outside Georgetown July 30, 2011. The packed Boeing 737-800 jet carrying 163 people crashed and broke in two on Saturday as it landed in Guyana at night, injuring dozens of passengers but killing no one. REUTERS/Alvo Salomon (GUYANA - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT) BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE (© Str New / Reuters)

Is a shorter runway more dangerous?

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Doing the numbers

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An Airbus A380 (top) and a Boeing 747

Boeing vs. Airbus: The pilot weighs in

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How real is the “surgical explosive” threat?

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The turtles captured at New York's Kennedy Airport on Wednesday.

Flying backward

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