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Friday, September 19, 2008 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

Was Obama in danger when his plane made an emergency landing? What's an "unforgiving" aircraft? The pilot answers readers' burning questions.
By Patrick Smith

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  • Friday, September 19, 2008 06:11 AM

    DC-9 and MD-80

    Patrick

    Isn´t the MD-80 a refurbished DC-9? Or it is newly built as such using an improved DC-9 design? In the Spainair crash could it be that the flaps were not deployed for take off?

    Can such a thing happen even though the crew has to check this before taking off?...And the tower would not see it?

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