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Winter Storm Shirley is causing travel chaos across the mid-South into the mid-Atlantic.

Situation. >> dynamic airways started just five years ago in greensboro, north carolina and only goes to two international decembstinati from the u.s. the fleet consists only of boeing 767s. the plane that caught fire was 29 years old. it was a similar scene in las vegas last month when a british airways planes caught fire on the runway. 13 of the 159 passengers were taken to the hospital, mainly from going down the plane slides. in total, 101 passengers were on board this flight. the ntsb is se...

Unfortunately, ntsb investigates a lot of accidents where things werent bad until someone ran off the end of the runway. >> miles, the plane slides did not deploy. thats kind of disturbing, too. >> well it appears you see that tail cone is missing. it appears the rear slide, there was a deployment there. if you look at the forward doors, its not an advantageous place to get out of the plane because the fence and the berm and everything else. so the idea that passengers had to go through those do...

Announced it will expand the regional drivers side air bag recall nationwide. it comes one day after japanese air bag maker takata will not expand the recall along high humidity areas. the air bags in question can expand with too much force and shoot out shrapnel. the defect has been linked to at least five deaths. in california people are waking up to more rain than theyve seen in a long time. another day of heavy precipitation in a state that needed it but cant handle three days of it. flash...