Word: backstopping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other problems as well. Last year Icelandair's single DC-10 was grounded for 37 days following the crash of an American Airlines DC-10 in Chicago. The airline has also been troubled by a large number of no-show passengers, who had booked with it as a backstop in case they could not get stand-by seats on a major carrier...