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British pilots warning about fatigue

The British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa) has warned the Colgan Air disaster on February 12, 2009, when 50 people were killed in an aircraft that crash-landed at Buffalo in the US, could happen here in the UK if European Union (EU) rules on pilot fatigue are allowed to proceed as planned.

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