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**FILE ** Passengers await a Red Line train at Metro's Metro Center station in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) **FILE**
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** FILE ** Rescue workers remove bodies from the wreckage after two Metro trains collided near the Fort Totten station in June 2009. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Passengers fill the terminal after a security breach shut down Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010. Authorities were searching for a man who walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal Sunday night. Flights were grounded and passengers were rescreened, an air safety official said. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
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NTSB Chairman Debbie Hersman updates the media during a press conference in Hoboken, N.J., Monday, Aug. 10, 2009. The plane that collided with a helicopter and crashed in the Hudson River near Hoboken is still under water. Divers hope to recover the plane on Monday, but their first priority is to recover the bodies of two remaining victims of the air collision that killed nine people, a chief investigator said. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)
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Deborah A.P. Hersman, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, presides over a hearing in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, to discuss the Feb. 12, 2009, crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 near Buffalo-Niagara International Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
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Rescue worker searches area around wreckage of a commercial helicopter that crashed Thursday night, July 23, 2009, on Interstate 70 in western Maryland. Officials said four people in the helicopter were killed. (AP Photo/Hagerstown Herald-Mail, Kevin G. Gilbert)
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**FILE** A Japan Airlines plane takes off from Haneda International Airport in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2010. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this Oct. 11, 2001, file photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke at ground zero in New York. (AP Photo/Stan Honda, Pool)
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** FILE ** The D.C. National Guard goes on a helicopter rescue-and-recovery mission in New Orleans on Sept. 11, 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times )
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** FILE ** An AirTran Airways Boeing 737 takes off from Logan International Airport in Boston in January 2007. AirTran was among the top three airlines for on-time performance in October 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
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** FILE ** A Staten Island ferry docks at the Manhattan terminal in New York on Sunday, May 9, 2010. The Staten Island ferry that malfunctioned and smashed into a pier, tossing passengers to the deck, has been idled while federal and local officials try to figure out what went wrong. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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** FILE ** A Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 arrives at Portland International Airport in Portland, Ore., on Monday, July 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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The first of three KLM passenger planes headed toward New York takes off from Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday April 19, 2010. European transport officials have carved up the sky, creating three zones to break the flight deadlock caused by a cloud of volcanic ash flowing from Iceland over Europe. France said Monday that European countries can resume airline traffic in designated "caution zones" where the threat of ash is considered less dangerous. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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**FILE** A U.S. Army Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter flies on a mission over Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.
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** FILE ** In this July 30, 2009, file photo, patients wait in the emergency room at Cook County Hospital, one of Chicago's safety net hospitals. A private trade group said Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, its measure of the U.S. service sector grew in September for the first time in 13 months. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, file)
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South Koreans watch a television screen showing undated file footage of a South Korean Navy ship near the disputed waters off South Korea's west coast, at a railway station in Seoul on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. The two Koreas briefly exchanged naval fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, with a North Korean ship suffering heavy damage before retreating, South Korean military officials said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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**FILE** Washington traffic on Interstate 395 near Seminary Road in Alexandria, Va. (Associated Press)
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Passengers wait to be re-screened due to a security breach at Terminal 8 of JFK airport in New York on Jan. 16, 2010. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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**FILE** Fe Lastrella, left, who lost family members in an accident Involving a Toyota, Kevin Haggerty, who experienced sudden unintended acceleration in a Toyota, Joan Claybrook, President Emeritus of Public Citizen and former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Clarence Ditlow, Executive Director, Center for Auto Safety, are sworn in before testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform about Toyota on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
