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

A TSA official holds a bag of liquids and gels at Washington's Reagan National Airport.

Body scanners? Pat-downs? Sooo last week

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A TSA worker pats down a passenger at Denver International Airport on Tuesday.

One step ahead of the terrorists?

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**PLEASE FORWARD TO BUSINESS PHOTO EDITORS GOODMAN AND HATCH FOR UPCOMING STORY BY HARRY WEBER** are seen at Lambert St. Louis International Airport Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) (Jeff Roberson)

TSA’s double standard

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Qantas Airways A-380 passenger plane QF32 with its partially damaged engine sits on the tarmac after making an emergency landing at Changi airport in Singapore November 4, 2010. The Qantas Airways passenger plane carrying 459 people was forced to shut down an engine and return to to Singapore's Changi airport on Thursday, ending speculation that it had crashed, the airline and Singapore state TV said. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash (SINGAPORE - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER BUSINESS) (© Vivek Prakash / Reuters)

Qantas’ perfect storm of failures

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A JetBlue Airbus A320 takes off from Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Calif.

No, pilots aren’t watching DVDs while flying

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A hijacker points his pistol from the cockpit of TWA Flight 847 as an ABC news crew approaches the jet for an interview at Beirut International Airport on June 19, 1985.

News flash: Deadly terrorism existed before 9/11

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“In the event of a loss of cabin pressure …”

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Qantas Airways 380 passenger plane flight QF32 is sprayed by rescue services after making an emergency landing at Changi airport in Singapore November 4, 2010. The Airbus A380, which had originated in London and was carrying 459 people, suffered failure of one of its four engines shortly after it had left the island state en route for Sydney. Australian officials said no one on board was injured. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash (SINGAPORE - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER BUSINESS IMAGES OF THE DAY) (© Vivek Prakash / Reuters)

Why all the fuss over Qantas emergency landing?

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A security official demonstrates a full body scanner during a photocall at Departure Gate 2 at Hamburg Airport September 27, 2010. Germany started on Monday the voluntary use of two 'L-3 Provision ATD' body scanners for a test period over the next six months at the airport. REUTERS/Christian Charisius (GERMANY - Tags: TRANSPORT SCI TECH) (© Christian Charisius / Reuters)

Airport security reaches new levels of absurdity

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This undated photo released by the Dubai Police via the state Emirates News Agency (WAM) on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, claims to show parts of a computer printer with explosives loaded into its toner cartridge found in a package onboard a cargo plane coming from Yemen, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai police say the bomb, discovered in the ink cartridge of a computer printer in a shipment of air cargo from Yemen bound for the United States, contained the powerful explosive PETN and bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida. (AP Photo/Dubai Police via Emirates News Agency) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES (AP)

The package-bomb wake-up call

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Not your ordinary traffic jam

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Michael Roberts

In praise of Michael Roberts, body-scan rebel

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Where coach is better than the usual 1st class

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United Airlines Flight 811 after a mid-flight cargo door failure on February 24, 1989.

The two most abused words in air travel

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Why are there so few automatic landings?

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Professional jealousy? Really?

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Near catastrophe — or minor event?

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Southwest and AirTran to join forces

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The menace of pilot fatigue

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Nurses check the heartbeat of a newborn baby found inside the lavatory of an airplane at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

Baby on board

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How to make economy class more comfortable

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Two ways of looking at TSA

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Pilots in the cockpit during a commercial flight (Carlos E. Santa Maria)

Copilots are not potted plants

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Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary

Michael O’Leary: Flying’s anti-Richard Branson

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