Thirty-minute extensions would be possible if the captain reasonably believed the plane would take off within that time.

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So far, the regulator has discovered that the Boston fire was caused by a short circuit within one of the cells of the plane's multi-cellular batteries, and that a fault in the battery's design allowed the resulting overheating to spread to the other cells.

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When Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the bombing, was captured in Pakistan, a U.S. military plane was sent there to bring him to the U.S. She demanded the plane land within the Southern District so that she could prosecute him in Manhattan.

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