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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IT WAS UNSAFE BECAUSE THERE WAS NO FLIGHT CREW TO FLY THE PLANE. [/quote]

But WHY was there no crew? This is not a difficult question! It's not dangerous to be in Florida YET!

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Because there are almost no flights going INTO FL.  So they have no fresh crew members coming IN to fly OUT.

Flying a plane isn't like driving a taxi.  You don't pick up some passengers, take them to Dulles, pick up passengers coming out of Dulles and take them home.

How it works: a plane from CA flies to FL.  Everyone, including the crew, deplanes.  The crew, if they've hit their limit of hours they can fly, must then rest a certain number of hours before they can fly again.  If they haven't hit their hours, they still may come off the plane because the plane they're scheduled to take next isn't that plane.

It's not like the pilot and crew fly from Chicago into FL, pick up more people and fly back to Chicago.  It happens, sure, but not if they've hit their in-air flight hours for that day.  [/quote]

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