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New york city's three airports closing for more than 12 hours yesterday, and across the u.s. travelers are trying to get rebooked to their final destinations. in some cases folks won't get home until tomorrow, and the news not sitting well with some people who have been stranded at the airport since sunday. >> i took vacation from both jobs to try to, you know, go. the delay and pushing everything back, it's kind of frustrated. >> my second flight gets canceled, and we had to do another trf, and our absolute ticket for this afternoon's fight is double booked. rick: david lee miller at laguardi...

They had talked about replacing this plane, but, of course, with a newer plane, but that has not happened because of financial problems. the plane was about 20 years old. it got a major refit of avionics, engines, everything back in december. that's the aircraft that we know they were flying on today. however, what we also know is that as the plane was coming in to land at molensk airport in the western part of russia, the plane was below the glide path, and according to air traffic control, was coming in too fast. had a very fast vertical decent. the pilot was warned about that and was told t...