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Panel: $11 million air safety study not worth much

October 28, 2009 By The Associated Press  RITA BEAMISH (Associated Press Writer)

An $11 million air safety study sponsored by NASA that asked pilots to reveal mishaps and problems they encountered was so riddled with flaws that it could not provide useful insights about U.S. flight safety, according to a new review by a national scientific panel.

The research project ran for nearly four years and involved telephone interviews that lasted about 30 minutes with 29,000 pilots....

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