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AvTalk Episode 352: It’s the deicing that’ll get ya

AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

Show Notes

We begin the year with a mess in Amsterdam as more than 3,000 flights have been canceled at the airport this week following snow storms and a long list of operational problems. We look at the impact on civil aviation from the US military action in Venezuela last weekend. Kazakhstan investigators issue an update on […]

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