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Old Sep 3, 2007 | 1:20 pm
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Since you are so worried, how do short haul planes built by Boeing or Airbus make it across the oceans to server their domestic routes? Every route can have land within targetable range barring an extreme catastrophe.

I stopped in TPE once for an emergency refueling. No engines were out but the pilot wanted to cover his bases on the way to SIN.
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