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The details continue to emerge over a downed US Airways aircraft on Thursday with over 150 passengers and crew aboard. The plane, which was headed to Charlotte, hit a flock... Hotel Deals
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Most flight crews get at least one day of training in a pool in swimsuits for that rarest of airline disasters, a ditching. If you think that sounds fun, you're wrong. Among other things, you have to demonstrate that you're a strong swimmer and that you're capable of climbing into and out of one of those inflatable evacuation chutes, which become life rafts in the water.
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