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On the recordFebruary 24, 2010
I mean, it just will not surprise--it shouldn't surprise any of the three of us--that two of the people who got in a cockpit that day to fly to Buffalo, one hadn't slept in a bed for two nights, and the other hadn't been in a bed the night before.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Dorgan highlights pilot fatigue as a significant issue affecting safety.

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