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Wait, whoa, hang on. This is no hoax. It happened to me. See, I had a flight with a connection in Dallas-Ft. Worth (DFW) and ... no, no, really, don't click the back button...
...start at the beginning. My colleague, Karen Tumulty, and I were informed last weekend by Barack Obama's camp that they had approved our request to interview the candidate for TIME. We were to meet him in Albuquerque, N.M., on Monday afternoon. My flight from Kansas City, via DFW, landed on time Monday morning after three hours of the usual misery. Nothing major: my seat, inches from the fuselage-mounted engine, knocked a couple hundred hertz off my hearing range, and the guy in front of me had reclined his seat so far back I could count his follicles...
After the interview, I called a cab to run us back to the airport. "Five or ten minutes," the dispatcher promised, by which she apparently meant, "53 minutes." When the cab finally dropped me outside the American Airlines terminal, it was 5:06 p.m. My flight...
...barreled through security and jogged to Gate B1, where I arrived just as the agent was closing the door. "Please?" I begged. "This flight's closed!" she barked...
...Although the cause of the crash has not been confirmed, the MD-82 plane was taking off on a flight to the Canary Islands from Madrid's Barajas airport when one of its engines apparently caught fire. "The nose of the plane and the front wheels had lifted," said Public Works Minister Magdalena Alvarez at a press conference Wednesday. "Whether the rear wheels got off the ground is still being investigated...