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For airline pilot Mal Freeburg, handling in-flight emergencies was all in a day’s work. The bad news traveled fast on a beautiful afternoon at St. Paul’s Municipal Airport in April 1932. Sitting in Northwest Airway’s Minnesota headquarters, radio operator Bill Edwards listened to a message through his headphones:“Hello Bill. This is Number 4, southbound. Freeburg …
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