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Old Jun 13, 2001 | 2:23 pm
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Legally, the plane must return to the gate and release the passengers once the threshold of false imprisonment (civil law) has passed. However, false imprisonment cannot be defined easily like crew duty time or cruising altitude. A judge in a civil trial decides whether false imprisonment occurs, but then you would need to get off the plane first before the trial can begin...
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