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

Oops! You weren’t supposed to hear that

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What’s the big deal about JetBlue?

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Good fun or security breach?

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

The future of airport security?

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Turn this plane around

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Passenger on the flight waiting a takeoff

Airing grievances

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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.

Will we ever know what caused the crash?

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

The menace of pilot fatigue

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**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)

Pilots sentenced after deadly crash

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Back in the U.S. of A.

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To fasten or not to fasten

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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)

Solving an aviation mystery

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Laptops and landings

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

Am I wrong about the futility of airport security?

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Why airports’ “liquid and gels” rules are absurd

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Ten years after 9/11, airport security still not getting it

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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 world’s 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)

When planes collide … on the ground

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The injustice of economy class

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In this photo provided by passenger Joshua Hardwicke, shows a cell phone image of an apparent hole in the cabin on a Southwest Airlines aircraft Friday, April 1, 2011 as it makes an emergency decent into Yuma, Ariz. Authorities say the flight from Phoenix to Sacramento, Calif., was diverted to Yuma due to rapid decompression in the plane. FAA spokesman Ian Gregor says the cause of the decompression isn't immediately known. But passengers aboard the plane say there was a hole in the cabin and that forced an emergency landing. (AP photo/Joshua Hardwicke) NO SALES (AP)

Southwest feels the pressure

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Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Bangkok

The art of getting the hell out of an airport

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The FAA control tower at Reagan National Airport is seen in Arlington, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Federal safety officials are investigating a report that two planes landed at the airport without control tower clearance because the air traffic controller was asleep. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) (AP)

Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve been cleared to land. Or have we?

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Is it hot in here?

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How to explain the popularity of Pringles?

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Omar Shahin, one of six imams removed from a US Airways flight at the Minnepolis-St. Paul International Airport, waits at the Northwest counter, where he successfully purchased a ticket on Nov. 21, 2006.

Passenger vigilantism strikes again

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