Airlines say they police their cleaning crews and often require two people to work a plane at the same time.

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By way of comparison, West Germany is spending approximately as much for its own work on an aerospace plane.

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While we've certainly put a crick or two in our necks after a long work session on an plane, the story strikes us as being classic scare-journalism: although a lot of frightening statistics are trotted out, no published research is cited and the two main sources quoted are chiropractors.

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