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Pilot Refuses to Declare Emergency / Avianca Flight 52 Runs Out of Fuel

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How Far Is Boston From New York?

A plane roughly a little under every two minutes. That is a lot. I don't know they're typical would have been, but that's fast. So when they entered this third holding pattern, they were at 14 thousand feet, and then they descended to 11 thousand feet during the hold. They're expecting to land relatively on. Then at eight forty four, while they were still holding, air traffic control advised them to expect further clearance at nine o five. The first officer responded saying, well, i think we need priority. We're passing. And then, it's kind of unintelligible, the controller asked how long they could hold and what their alternate airport was. He said

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