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U.S. slaps limit on tarmac waits

Fliers must disembark after 3 hours

By Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports

Posted: December 22, 2009 at 4:19 a.m.

LOU MARTIN
Credit: AP
Stranded passengers aboard a JetBlue Airways flight to Cancun walk around the cabin while waiting hours to take off at New York’s Kennedy International Airport on Feb. 14, 2007.

The Obama administration took aim Monday at tarmac horror stories, ordering airlines to let passengers stuck in stranded airplanes to disembark after three hours.

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