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

Social networking and dissent

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Scenes from the 1974 movie "Earthquake"

What if an earthquake strikes as a plane is landing?

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Measuring success by access to gadgets

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Somebody stop this thing!

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Air travel is getting safer all the time

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Crying kids, angry parents

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Worst flight ever: Middle seat in the smoking section

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TO GO WITH STORY : THAILAND TRANSVESTITE BY THANYARAT DOKSONE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011 photo, from left to right, transvestites Chayathisa Nakmai, Nathatai Sukkaset and Dissanai Chitpraphachin take a makeup training course, as part of the preparations for the inaugural flight of P.C. Air headquarters in Bangkok. The Thai airline is the first air company that recruited transvestites as flight attendants. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) (Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand’s transsexual flight attendants

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A worker walks past a plane parked on the snow covered tarmac of Zurich airport in Kloten after the region was hit by strong snow falls, December 17, 2010. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann (SWITZERLAND - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TRANSPORT) (Reuters)

Icy runways! Snow! Canceled flights!

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The Ibn Tulun mosque in Cairo

Prague as theme park. Plus: Cairo!

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** FILE **In this photo released by European plane maker Airbus, Friday Dec. 17, 2004 of Air Asia, China signed an order Thursday with Airbus for 150 mid-size A320 planes as the European aircraft maker took a major step toward opening its first Chinese assembly line, Thursday, Oct 26, 2006. The Airbus sale was among a series of business deals signed as French President Jacques Chirac began a state visit to China. (AP Photo/Airbus, HO) (Associated Press)

The risks of speedy turnarounds

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Ambulance vehicles and emergency workers are seen in front of Domodedovo airport in Moscow, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. An explosion ripped through the international arrivals hall at Moscow's busiest airport on Monday, killing dozens of people and wounding scores, officials said. The Russian president called it a terror attack. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) (AP)

Russians barely flinch after airport bombing

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Ambulance vehicles and emergency workers are seen in front of Domodedovo airport in Moscow, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. An explosion ripped through the international arrivals hall at Moscow's busiest airport on Monday, killing dozens of people and wounding scores, officials said. The Russian president called it a terror attack. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) (AP)

Preempting the hysteria over Moscow bombing

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Heaven and hell in the Phi Phi Islands

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Where’s the smiling pilot as we deplane after a bumpy landing?

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Mike Potter

A rap version of “Ask the Pilot”?

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

Plastic kiddie wings no longer a threat!

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A U.S. Airways jet is seen amidst snow blown by gust of wind at the Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. A powerful East Coast blizzard menaced would-be travelers by air, rail and highway Monday, leaving thousands without a way to get home after the holidays and shutting down major airports and rail lines for a second day. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (Matt Rourke)

Why flying and snow storms don’t mix

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Embarrassed TSA goes after whistle-blowing pilot

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A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) worker (R) rubs her hands across a elderly female traveler's chest during a patdown search at Denver International Airport as another traveler watches (L) in Denver November 23, 2010. Half of Americans say the enhanced passenger security patdowns at U.S. airports go too far, according to a poll published just before the busy holiday travel season. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT SOCIETY) (© Rick Wilking / Reuters)

Restoring sanity to airport security

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John Gimlette in Newfoundland

The world’s best living travel writer

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A Life magazine photo from the 1970s of a 14-year-old boy dropping from the gear bay of a Japan Air Lines DC-8 seconds after takeoff from Sydney, Australia.

The boy who fell to earth

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In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, two tourists stroll past a Thai-styled pavillian at departure hall at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. The Tourism Authority of Thailand is offering five couples fully paid trips to the country's most popular cities and beaches. In return, they will be asked to blog, chat and tweet about their holiday in a bid to win a grand prize of $10,000, a BlackBerry and a video camera. Thailand's tourism industry is facing its worst crisis in years, with foreign arrivals down 15 percent so far this year because of political upheaval and the global recession. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong) (Apichart Weerawong)

Miscellaneous musings on airports, air travel and animals

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Out there in the night …

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