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3-hour limit placed on airline passengers' tarmac waits

latimes.com
Dec. 21, 2009
The Department of Transportation orders airlines to allow passengers on domestic flights to leave airplanes if they have been stuck on the tarmac for three hours. Some safety exceptions are allowed. The U.S. Department of Transportation is ordering airlines to allow passengers to leave an...
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