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...brain thinks, particularly the way it contemplates the consequences of actions. Recall the last time you found yourself in a stressful situation--when you were scared, nervous or threatened. Your brain tuned out everything besides whatever it was that was frightening you--the familiar fight-or-flight mode. "The part of the prefrontal cortex that is involved in deliberative cognition is shut down by stress," says Vocci. "It's supposed to be, but it's even more inhibited in substance abusers." A less responsive prefrontal cortex sets up addicts to be more impulsive as well...
Even the airline industry is warning that this summer will be the busiest on record and asks passengers to prepare for flight delays. But are there more delays than airlines and federal agencies are officially disclosing? Incidents like JetBlue's meltdown last February may be more common than previously thought...
...inaccurate. Currently, the BTS does not record the total time a plane spends on the tarmac if the plane returns to the gate and then later takes off. It also does not include the tarmac delay times if the plane had been diverted from another airport or if the flight is ultimately cancelled, says David Smallen, a BTS spokesman. Those flights are just recorded as "diverted" or "cancelled," regardless if passengers have sat on the planes for hours, according to Smallen...
...such incident involved American Airlines flight 1348, which was supposed to fly from San Francisco to Dallas on Dec. 29. The flight was among the 69 that American diverted that day because of storms in Texas. Passengers aboard flight 1348 ended up landing in Austin and sitting on a tarmac there for almost nine hours before they were allowed to deplane because no gate was ready. But according to the BTS records, flight 1348 was simply "diverted." "It's like our flight didn't even exist," says Kate Hanni, a passenger onboard flight 1348, which she says had overflowing toilets...
...which originally used the BTS data to defend the airline industry's handling of tarmac delays - now supports the Bureau's improvement of its data collection and even issued a press release the day before the BTS began its review. "When it gets out that the airlines knew the flight data was inaccurate, there's going to be a backlash against them," Mogel says of the ATA. "Obviously they've been strategizing about how to handle this so that they're on the right side...