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Priority Travel News: Air Traffic Controller Exodus Stifling Airline Industry in Chicago, U.S.

CHICAGO – On Aug. 26, 2006, 35-year-old airplane captain Jeffery Clay spent the evening dining with his wife and two children. After dinner, he went back to his hotel to catch some needed sleep for his 4:15 a.m. wake-up call. One last time, though, he picked up the phone and spoke to his wife. That call lasted four minutes. Mrs. Clay would never again speak to her husband. The short evening phone call would be their last. Captain Clay reported for work at 5:15 a.m., but at 6:07 a.m., he would be killed along with 48 other passengers and crew at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Ky. When Comair flight 5191 ran out of runway. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News