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was unlikely to serve time. Of 244 service members whose punishments were detailed in the records, only a third of them were incarcerated.
• The analysis of the reported sex crimes, filed between 2005 and early 2013, shows a pattern of random and inconsistent judgments:
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Cases abound of commercial pilots mixing up airports, government and media reports show
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Do you know the way to San Jose? Quite a few airline pilots apparently don't.
• On at least 150 flights, including one involving a Southwest Airlines jet last month in Missouri and a jumbo cargo plane last fall in Kansas, U.S. commercial air carriers have either landed at the wrong airport or started to land and realized their mistake in time, according to a search by The Associated Press of government safety databases and media reports since the early 1990s.
• A particular trouble spot is San Jose, Calif. The list of landing mistakes includes six reports of pilots preparing to land at Moffett Field, a joint civilian-military airport, when they meant to go to Mineta San Jose International Airport, about 10 miles to the southeast. The airports are south of San Francisco in California's Silicon Valley.
• "This event occurs several times every winter in bad weather when we work on Runway 12," a San Jose airport tower controller said in a November 2012 report describing how an airliner headed for Moffett after being cleared to land at San Jose. A controller at a different facility who noticed the impending landing on radar warned his colleagues with a telephone hotline that piped his voice directly into the San Jose tower's loudspeakers. The plane was waved off in time.
• In nearly all the incidents, the pilots were cleared by controllers to guide the plane based on what they could see rather than relying on automation. Many incidents occur at night, with pilots reporting they were attracted by the runway lights of the first airport they saw during descent. Some pilots said they disregarded navigation equipment that showed their planes slightly off course because the information didn't match what they were seeing out their windows -- a runway straight ahead.
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As snow days pile up, so does the stress as educators, parents deal with schedule adjustments
• COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The first snow day of this brutal winter left teacher Christopher Crabtree almost as tickled as it did his three children, but delight is giv (Continued on page 24)
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