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The Year of Flying Dangerously

This week’s crash of an American Airlines jet is the last in a busy year in aviation headlines. Aviation expert Clive Irving concludes 2009 was all about pilots—good, bad, robot, and Sully.

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What should airline passengers make of the rocky path of aviation in 2009? After a number of years in which flying seemed to be getting safer and safer, there was a sudden rash of disasters and near-disasters.

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