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Old Aug 24, 2002 | 2:20 pm
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I don't have anything to match the above posts, thank goodness! Only one I can think of offhand is flying from Panama City, Panama to the Caribbean coast of Panama to visit the San Blas islands. (Where the Cuna Indians live, the ones who make the beautiful Mola appliqued textiles.)

It was a tiny plane (just a few passengers) -- sorry, I don't know the make and model, this was six years ago -- and we were totally enveloped in low clouds. No visibility whatsoever. One woman was praying, and the pilot seemed quite nervous. But it must be normal to fly these flights under these conditions, no?

This kind of flight, domestic flights on small planes in third-world countries, is probably the most dangerous kind I've been on.

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