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Old Aug 27, 2006 | 6:26 am
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Originally Posted by magiciansampras
I know they used to do this in the past, but I'm pretty sure I've always had a taxi push us out. Do air carriers ever use reverse thrust to back up anymore?
I've been in planes that did that a couple of times recently.
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