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Old May 12, 2009 | 6:47 am
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This bothers me...how common are such schedules, I wonder.

...Both pilots were returning to work after a day off. Capt. Renslow was coming off weeks of late-evening and early-morning flying schedules, often sandwiched around only a few hours of rest. Ms. Shaw [the copilot] had spent the day before the accident skiing. She then took a red-eye flight from Seattle to report for work in Newark....
(From the linked article).
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