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After an unexpected stop in Monterrey when someone decided to have a baby mid-flight, I arrived at my destination in Guadalajara.
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After an unexpected stop in Monterrey when someone decided to have a baby mid-flight, I arrived at my destination in Guadalajara.
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Airplane doors cannot be opened in mid-flight, authorities said.
Threats Divert Planes in Separate Incidents Douglas Belkin 2011
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The idea of catching a dove in mid-flight and so far out, going so fast.
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A needle dragging a length of thread in its wake lay impaled in mid-flight through a section of the fabric ensconced in a wooden hoop.
A Michoacan tradition: the needlework artistry of Hermelinda Reyes 2009
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Speaking of snacks, the mid-flight snacks were stuffed-bun sandwiches, which is to say that they were soft rolls with either a meat or vegetarian filling.
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Rand grasped the fireball in mid-flight as well, and flung it upwards toward the huge steel tortoise.
Trial of Seven grrm 2010
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But based on the early material gathered so far, these experts and investigators said, the safety board increasingly believes the deadly chain of events was touched off when part a of a flight-control surface on the tail of the plane broke off in mid-flight.
Pilot Likely Passed Out Before Crash, Experts Say Andy Pasztor 2011
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While in mid-flight she managed to secure a divorce (though it may have been technically an annulment; I'm not certain divorce was legal there and then, and she was certainly too far from Nevada to get herself "Renovated") from Mandl on grounds of abandonment -- claiming that she loved him so much that she could not bear it when he went traveling on business.
Hedwig Kiesler is a Stone-Cold BADASS zhukora1 2009
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The idea of catching a dove in mid-flight and so far out, going so fast.
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