When the door was closed on that plane, I knew we were finally safe, and a wave of overwhelming relief swept throughout my body.

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Just before the plane doors closed, a young couple came on with a sleeping baby.

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However, when the U.S. fighters spotted the Iranian plane, they closed to within two miles of the approaching craft.

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The airport was closed was shut while the plane was removed from the runway and the area cleared of debris.

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Los Angeles (CNN) -- An American Airlines pilot booted Alec Baldwin off a flight Tuesday because the actor refused to turn off his cell phone after the plane's doors were closed for departure, the airline said Wednesday.

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Once the airports officially closed it was pretty much game over for even the savviest travelers, as there was no trick up your sleeve that could make a plane take you to a closed airport, and pretty much everything in the Northeast, from JFK and Newark and Philly down to Hartford was closed.

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The U.S. fighters closed to within two miles of the Iranian plane.

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The "confusion" started after the plane remained at the gate for 15 minutes after the door closed, Baldwin wrote.

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He got on a plane with his CFO and his banker, visited the prospects, and closed the deal at that meeting.

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