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Senator wants answers for passengers stranded in Mexico

A lawmaker from Minnesota wants answers after a local airline cancelled its last flight of the season, leaving travelers stranded in Mexico. Eagan, Minn.-based Sun Country Airlines cancelled return flights to the Twin Cities during a weekend snowstorm but failed to rebook or adequately refund the passengers, U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., contends. In a letter to the Department of Transportation, Smith called on federal transportation officials to look into Sun Country’s failures and to

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Feds looking for fugitive airline mechanic wanted for 20 years

The feds are looking for a fugitive airline mechanic who may have played a role in the fatal crash of a ValuJet Airlines passenger plane in the Florida Everglades in 1996. Mauro Ociel Valenzuela-Reyes has been on the lam for two decades, the FBI said in a news release. Reyes worked for the airline’s maintenance contractor, SabreTech, and was facing federal criminal charges in 1999. Crash investigators determined he had a role in mishandling and