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Details on senator’s landing on closed runway released

By Janice Wood · April 14, 2011 ·

Newly released audio recordings detail first-hand witness accounts of Sen. James Inhofe’s (R-Okla.) October 21 landing on a closed, marked and occupied runway in south Texas, and suggest runway workers may have had reason to fear for their lives, according to a report at AVWeb, which has taken three separate audio segments  made available through a Freedom of Information Act request and merged them into one MP3. Check it out here.

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