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In-flight Issue Contamination

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Jan 6, 2008, 11:21 AM

laf4377

Join Date: Jan 2008

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Contamination

My wife and I were in perfect health when we boarded AA69 from Madrid last Thursday. By the time the plane landed in MIA we were both sick. One thing we noticed on the flight besides the reduced seating space, was that there was no circulation of air on the plane. We did not even have the air vents normally found on the top of the seat. There was a chorus of passengers coughing and we feel we were contaminated. There is simply no way we can fly again on AA to Europe.

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