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What went wrong with the MD-80 aircraft?

Submitted: Apr 11, 2008 - Increased fares, packed flights and long delays have become hallmarks of air travel. But why were more than 100,000 passengers stranded in cities across the U.S. for three days?

­American Airlines (AA) grounded its entire fleet of Boeing-manufactured MD-80 aircraft, a total of around 300 planes [source: Aviation]. As a result, as many as 2,500 flights were canceled by the airline [source:…

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