It is easy to skirt around the affected areas by bus and plane.

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The NTSB, which often investigates plane and bus crashes, also monitors pipeline accidents.

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She traveled by bus, train and plane to end run Hurricane Irene in search of the billionaire Johnson family.

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Onboard a bus that simulated an arriving plane, Ms. Flehmig's group received careful instructions.

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All passengers on board the plane were transferred by bus to the airport terminal.

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But take any plane, train or bus and consumers are holding--paper.

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Gibson and Sawyer are on a bus tour of the South, but had planned to cheat and take a plane from Austin to Lafayette, Louisiana, and bus it to New Orleans.

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Remember, those were the days when taking a plane was like taking a bus.

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In London, Picarro will place analyzers on the ground around the city as well as one on a bus to measure carbon emissions at road level and another on a plane to gauge emissions at higher altitudes.

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Accra, Ghana (CNN) -- Ten people were killed Saturday after a cargo plane crashed through a fence surrounding an airport in Accra, Ghana, and slammed into a bus, municipal and national officials said.

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Then the plane was rerouted to San Jose, forcing Fleming and his fellow passengers to endure a traffic-snarled bus ride to San Francisco's airport, where they arrived four hours behind schedule.

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