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Is the Airbus a lemon?

Two Airbus crashes in two months: Should we worry? Plus: Welcome to the Six Continent Club!
By Patrick Smith

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  • Friday, July 10, 2009 01:13 AM

    About Pan Am

    "[Our airlines] operate, in a sense, as de facto ambassadors, carrying the flag -- and us -- to the world's far corners. Pan Am did this with an almost mythic dignity and flair..." - Patrick Smith

    Indeed, Pan Am's reputation was such that Stanley Kubrick had a Pan Am shuttle to an earth-orbiting space station in his 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey"

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