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Stowaway Found Dead on SF Jet
Stowaway Found Dead
on SF Jet

Stowaway Found Dead on SF Jet

Tucked in wheel well on frozen flight from Shanghai

(Newser) - The body of a middle-aged Asian man tucked into the wheel well of a United Airlines flight from Shanghai was found shortly after landing at San Francisco Airport yesterday. He is  likely to have died of exposure or asphyxiation during the 11-hour flight, when temperatures can plummet to -40 degrees,...

Computer Outage Leads to Airline Outage

Glitch forces United to ground worldwide flights for 2 hours

(Newser) - United flights around the globe sat on the tarmac for 2 hours this morning after a computer malfunction effectively shut down the world's second-biggest carrier. The midmorning glitch affected an unknown number of flights, Bloomberg reports, before techs traced the trouble to the systems that weigh planes, check their balance,...

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