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

Should nuts be banned on commercial flights?

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Tales from the road

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Widebodies and regionals duke it out on the runway

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“Aviation” publishing shenanigans

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Taking issue with Lonely Planet’s climate-change warning

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Introducing the Triple-X Alliance

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Forensic officials and rescue workers inspect the wreckage of a crashed Air India Express passenger plane in Mangalore on May 23.

India plane crash: The avoidable danger

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What’s in an airline name?

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Does cockpit automation foster boredom?

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Rescue teams search the site of the Afriqiyah Airways plane crash in Tripoli, Libya.

Plane crashes, media errors begin

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Flying over Greenland.

Over the volcano

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Thomas Enders, CEO des Flugzeugherstellers Airbus, und Scheich Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, auf der Gangway Mitte, verlassen am Montag, 28. Juni 2008 in Hamburg Finkenwerder waehrend der feierlichen bergabe des ersten Airbus A380 an die Fluglinie Emirates aus Dubai das Flugzeug. Emirates erhielt den ersten von insgesamt 58 bestellten Flugzeugen diese Typs. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer) --- Airbus CEO Thomas Enders, on Gangway center left, and HRH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, on Gangway center right, leave an Airbus A380 airplane during the first delivery ceremony to Emirates Airline at the German Airbus plant in Hamburg Finkenwerder, Germany, on Monday, July 28, 2008. Emirates ordered 58 aircrafts of the A380 type. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer) (Associated Press)

The biggest, richest, best and worst airlines

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Faisal Shahzad

Faisal Shahzad and the no-fly list

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A Continental Airlines plane passes an Untied Airlines plane parked at a gate at George Bush Intercontinental Airport Sunday, May 2, 2010, in Houston. Directors at Continental and United airlines have approved a deal that would combine them into the world's largest airline, a source with knowledge of the situation said on Sunday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) (AP)

United and Continental tie the knot

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A security officer shows a plastic bag which contains a passenger's liquid belongings at a security gantry at Zurich airport November 6, 2006. Air travellers in Europe must pack water, perfumes, toothpastes and other liquids into a small plastic bag before going through airport security checkpoints under new rules that enter into force on Monday. The rules limit the amount of liquids people may take on board planes and reflect efforts to standardise measures put in place in Europe after London authorities said in August they had foiled a plot to bomb flights bound for the United States. REUTERS/Andreas Meier (SWITZERLAND) (Reuters)

EU to phase out restrictions on liquids in carry-ons

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Undated file photo of an Ariana Boeing 727 passenger plane at Kabul airport in Afghanistan. The same type of jetliner with 166 passengers on board was hijacked earlier Sunday, Feb 6, 2000 by unidentified armed hijackers and forced to land at Uzbekistan for refueling before taking off to Moscow. (AP Photo/Amir Shah) (Associated Press)

Aging planes and safety records

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Japan Airlines' JAL 747 before its crane logo was replaced.

Disappearing airlines: Implications for safety, design and culture

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A pilot gives the thumps up to as gets the go ahead to leave Belfast City Airport, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, April, 20, 2010. Europe began allowing limited air traffic to resume, giving hope to millions of travelers stranded around the world when ash from a volcano in Iceland choked the jet age to a halt. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison) (Peter Morrison)

Did authorities overreact to the volcanic ash?

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Two women look at the arrival hall of Duesseldorf's airport on Monday.

When airplanes meet ash clouds

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Smoke and steam hangs over the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, Wednesday April 14, 2010, which has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. Volcanic ash drifting across the Atlantic forced the cancellation of flights in Britain and disrupted air traffic across northern Europe, stranding thousands of passengers. Flights in and out of London Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, were halted, and the shutdowns and cancellations spread to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland. The volcano's smoke and ash poses a threat to aircraft because it can affect visibility, and microscopic debris can get sucked into airplane engines and can cause them to shut down.(AP Photo/Jon Gustafsson) ** ICELAND OUT ** (Associated Press)

Iceland volcano blows, grounding planes

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Legislating tarmac delays

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Rescue workers inspect the debris on the site of the plane crash near Smolensk, western Russia, Sunday, April 11, 2010. Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's most prominent military and civilian leaders died Saturday along with dozens of others when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) (AP)

Russian plane crash: Evidence suggests crew error

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In this image taken from MSNBC video on Wednesday April 7, 2010, shows authorities responding to a plane disturbance on United Flight 663 at the Denver International Airport. The FBI is probing whether a man tried to ignite his shoes on a DC to Denver flight Wednesday, according to law enforcement officials, who say the man is a Qatari diplomat. (AP Photo/MSNBC) (AP)

The “shoe bomb” overreaction

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A woman holds a packet of the antidepressant drug Prozac, also known as fluoxetine, in Leicester, central England February 26, 2008. Antidepressant medications appear to help only very severely depressed people and work no better than placebos in many patients, British researchers said on Monday. REUTERS/Darren Staples (BRITAIN) (© Darren Staples / Reuters)

Antidepressants get the go-ahead

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