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Old Jan 21, 2010 | 12:57 pm
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Originally Posted by Steve GadFly
It could have just been a computer crash of that one Q-400's system. Colgan has a policy that if the on-board computer needs to be rebooted, there can't be any passengers on the plane while they're doing it.
That sounds nuts. Any idea why they have this policy?

Do the Q-400's landing gear cycle when you do a three-finger-salute to their computers?
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