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forgot to open an auxiliary fuel valve after taking off from Miami. Later that year, the route San José-San Pedro Sula-Orlando was inaugurated but the company decided to drop it four months later. In 1993, the livery and the fleet were changed from two Boeing 727-200 to two Boeing 737-200 (N170PL and
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