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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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** FILE ** An Oklahoma City fireman walks near explosion-damaged cars on the north side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City after the bombing on April 19, 1995. More than 600 people were injured in the attack and 168 people were killed. (AP Photo/Daily Oklahoman, Jim Argo, File)
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US Airways planes are seen at Reagan National Airport near Washington in December 2009. (AP Photo) ** FILE **
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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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People celebrate Mass under a tent next to an earthquake destroyed home in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, March 21, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving more than a million people living in makeshift camps. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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A Lebanese army helicopter flies past the USS Ramage on Tuesday as search efforts continue following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane into the sea off Beirut. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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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)
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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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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 ** Passengers await a Red Line train at Metro's Metro Center station in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) **FILE**
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**FILE** Washington traffic on Interstate 395 near Seminary Road in Alexandria, Va. (Associated Press)
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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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** 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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** 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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Firefighters try to extinguish burning cars near to the Hadrian's Arch seen in the background, in Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Greek fire officials say three people have died in a blaze at an Athens bank during rioting over government austerity measures. An estimated 100,000 people took to the streets Wednesday during a nationwide wave of strikes against spending cuts aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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A man looks at a broken section of Iceland's main coastal ring road near Reykjavik on after a volcanic eruption caused ice to melt and river levels to rise by up to 10 feet. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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A volounteer lays down flowers in front of the President Palace two days after Polish President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash, in Warsaw, Monday, April 12, 2010. Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday, when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in dense fog in western Russia. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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** FILE ** Investigators work at the site of the Polish presidential plane crash in Smolensk, Russia, on Monday, April 12, 2010. Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and some of the country's most prominent military and civilian leaders died along with dozens of others when the plane went down as it came in for a landing in thick fog. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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** FILE ** Trainer Dawn Brancheau poses while performing at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla., in 2005. Ms. Brancheau was killed in an accident with a killer whale in 2010. (Associated Press/Orlando Sentinel, Julie Fletcher)
