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Pilots claim airliners forced to fly with low fuel
Cost-cutting measures create serious risk for fliers, flight crews complain


By Alex Johnson and Grant Stinchfield
Reporters
MSNBC and NBC News
updated 10:59 a.m. CT, Wed., April. 16, 2008
As cash-strapped airlines pack more passengers on flights into ever-busier airports, pilots are filing internal complaints warning that airline cost-cutting on fuel supplies could be creating a major safety risk.

The complaints, compiled by msnbc.com and NBC News from a database of safety incident reports maintained on behalf of the Federal Aviation Administration, reveal wide-ranging concern among pilots that airlines are compelling them to fly with too little fuel.