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13 May 2009 20:46

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U.S.: The pilots in the Buffalo crash may as well have been slaves

  • $16,254 a year the amount co-pilot Rebecca Shaw made; she once had to augment the job with part-time work at a coffee shop in our former home town of Norfolk, Va. (please don’t be Fair Grounds … Yikes!)
  • 2,800 miles the length of Shaw’s commute; she lived with her parents in Seattle (probably because she was broke) but worked out of Newark, N.J. She often slept on couches in her crappy company’s pilot’s lounge source