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

Can turbulence be predicted?

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Parts of a Tu-134 airliner carrying 43 people that crashed in August 2004 south of Moscow.

Our collective memory loss

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Pilot in cockpit

The drama of flying

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Microphone madness

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A security official (2nd R) prepares to scan a man posing inside a full-body scanner being trialled by Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport during a photocall at the departure gate in Roissy near Paris February 22, 2010. France will use body scanners at some of its airports, initially to search passengers heading to the United States. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE - Tags: TRAVEL TRANSPORT CRIME LAW) (Reuters)

Flying naked

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A businessman covering his ears with his fingers

Shut up!

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When pilots commute

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Flying blind across the ocean

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This GeoEye-1 satellite image taken from 423 miles in space at 1037 am EST (1537 GMT) January 16, 2010, shows Port-au-Prince International Airport with multiple aircrafts, supplies and personnel on the ground. World leaders have pledged massive assistance to rebuild Haiti after the earthquake killed as many as 200,000 people, but five days into the crisis aid distribution was still random, chaotic and minimal. REUTERS/GeoEye Satellite Image/Handout (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS (Reuters)

The view from the Port-au-Prince airport

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Jules Paul Bouloute leaves Queens Criminal Court in New York, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010, after his arraignment on criminal trespass charge. He caused the evacuation of a terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday when he entered through an unauthorized door. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea) (Robert Mecea)

Emergency doors, karaoke bombers and other false alarms

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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is shown in this booking photograph released by the U.S. Marshals Service December 28, 2009. Abdulmutallab, 23, who was traveling with a valid U.S. visa although he was on a broad U.S. list of possible security threats, was overpowered by passengers and crew on the Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on December 25 after setting alight an explosive device attached to his body. He was treated for burns and is in federal prison awaiting trial in the incident. REUTERS/US Marshals Service/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW HEADSHOT CIVIL UNREST) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS (Reuters)

A wakeup call for airport security

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Man standing in his underwear, waiting to go through an airport security check station (James Steidl)

Baby toys and national security

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 image released by FlightAware.com, the flight path of Northwest Flight 188 is shown. After a Northwest Airlines plane flew past Minneapolis, air traffic controllers asked the pilots repeatedly for explanations about why they didn't heed radio calls, according to transcripts released on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/FlightAware.com, File) (Associated Press)

The inside story of Northwest 188

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Part of the fuselage of the Gol airlines Boeing 737-800 that crashed in the jungle after clipping an Embraer Legacy 600XL executive jet last Friday, lies on the jungle floor at the Jarina Indian reserve in the Brazilian Amazon basin October 1, 2006. Rescuers recovered the first two bodies from the wreckage of the crashed Brazilian passenger plane in the Amazon jungle on Sunday and reported that none of the 155 people on board had survived, the Brazilian Airforce said. REUTERS/Jamil Bittar (BRAZIL) (Reuters)

Whatever you do, don’t dis Brazil

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A US Airways jetliner is seen after it crashed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon, Jan. 15, 2009 after a flock of birds apparently disabled both its engines. Rescuers pulled the more than 150 passengers and crew members into boats before the plane sank, authorities say. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said Flight 1549 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport en route to Charlotte, N.C., when the crash occurred in the river near 48th Street in midtown Manhattan. (AP Photo/Greg Lam Pak Ng) (A. G. Lam Pak Ng)

Who’s flying this thing?

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Fires burning in New York's Belle Harbor neighborhood, from the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 which killed 265 people, are visible from a police helicopter Monday, Nov. 12, 2001. (AP Photo/New York Police Department) (Associated Press)

Is your pilot drunk?

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In this image released by FlightAware.com, the flight path of Northwest Flight 188 on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 is shown. Two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their destination by 150 miles before turning back, Wednesday evening, Oct 21, 2009, should have had numerous warnings as they approached and passed Minneapolis: cockpit displays, controllers trying repeatedly to reach, the city lights twinkling below. (AP Photo/FlightAware.com) (Associated Press)

The real distractions for pilots

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Boredom and fatigue at 35,000 feet

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Ask the pilot

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A Qantas 747 aircraft takes off from Sydney airport August 19, 2009. (REUTERS / Tim Wimborne)

All your questions about in-flight horrors

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Airplanes, oxygen and the media

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A detail from the Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport.

The somber beauty of air crash memorials

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On the eve of the 8th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, travellers go through the passenger security screening facility at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia, outside Washington, September 10, 2009.

Are we safer than we were eight years ago?

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