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Published 1/13/2009 by Al Kamen at Wash Post Federal Page
Passengers on Sunday's 1 p.m. US Airways shuttle from New York to Washington may have been lucky participants in an event that has rarely -- if ever -- occurred in aviation history: The shuttle not only took off on time, it did so 16 minutes early.
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