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I'm usually rather good at this locating old NTSB accident reports business, but for the life of me I can't seem to find the full report of Eastern Air Lines Flight 663. I found the brief, but what I need is the actual report. The NTSB website doesn't have a copy (it only has the last 15 or 20 years'

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article for its GA attempt. While the customary process is to put the article on hold for a week if it does not meet the criteria, it has been over a month since you put it on hold. I realize you wish to allow the reviewers more time to get this article to better standards, but the increasing backlog

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for now due to multiple issues. The length of time it would take also is longer than the time necessary to put the "on hold" sticker onto for the GA attempt. So, I would quick-fail this (if you would call it that, it seems we both conducted thorough reviews) so it may be improved and re-listed later.

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That being said, yes, my GA review is turning out to be more of a peer review than a GA review, but if it ends up getting to the point eventually, I'll be happy to have helped it along. When I finish up my review, I'm going to put it on hold rather than failing it, so as to give the editors a bit of

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After I had finished this note, I discovered that someone had replied to my note at the template talk page. It seems that the changes I asked for already exist, in the form of switches: "sp=us" and "adj=on". I didn't know about them, or almost anything else about the template, for that matter. That

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You may be relieved that both of these errors (if such they are) were caused by the template and not by you. Because of this, I wrote a message at the talk page of the template, as if any corrective action is taken, it must be there. I guess I also should have written my message on the article talk

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Concerning your question of the style changes I made, they were these: the {{convert}} template expanded your abbreviation "km" to "kilometre" rather than "kilometer." According to the Manual of Style, American spelling (rather than Commonwealth) is pretty much required in an article about American

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Sounds like wrong information. As soon as a plane is built, it was sent over to American Airlines and flown on a flight? I would think that they would have to fly the plane to an American Airlines base then put the magazines and safety cards and other things. Certainly not all in the same day?

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I'm not sure how much time I'll have to give it justice -- I'm leaving for a brief 4-or-5-day vacation on Wednesday -- but if it's still up there when I get back (Sunday), I'll get right on it. I don't suppose the video game has anything to do with the film? Because if it does, I have to warn you

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Thanks for your opinion. Considering the amount of work that's gone into this page so far, and the fact that there are active editors working on it now, I feel that with a bit of nudging in the right direction it can be worked into a GA pretty easily. Generally speaking, when I see this amount of

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Do you want to glance at it now. I've gone through your nice list and made improvements. I've been careful to use Nokian Tyre references for the objective facts but haven't used them for the really positive stuff to avoid bias. Some references are Nokia references, which is a different, now

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Good decision and I admire your dedication to improving articles and yes, it does look like this could be fixed up pretty well to GA-status. I agree, quick-failing is demoralizing and does not help editors very much. Anyways good luck and keep up the good review work. On a side note, the

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Addendum: and yes, I know the Civil Aeronautics Board released a report, but since the NTSB released a brief, wouldn't it make sense they released a report too? Wasn't 1965 a transitional period when both the CAB and NTSB investigated? --Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû 07:41, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

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Hi, sorry for holding the reviews for so long - I've been ill, and will back in hospital again Tues to Wed back week. I've done some tweaks. If you could find some time to at them I'd be grateful, but I realise you may be busy on other thing, as around Christmas.

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The other change was to replace "feet" by "foot" in the place where it was used as an adjective. The phrase, as I recall it, was something like "descended to the 7000 feet (sic) altitude level." The singular form of the unit is required here.

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Thanks for the re-review. I've addressed those points and added a tiny bit of new information that fits the article. You are so kind. I just found out that you never edited Braathens Helikopter at all so you're doing this out the kindness.

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Another reason I don't want to quick-fail it is because it's already been quick-failed once. Yeah, ok, I'm a bit of a softie and I hate to hurt peoples' feelings. But I feel that if I'm willing to baby this thing along to GA status, I'll do

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of reports available), and Embry-Riddle University's collection doesn't have it (they're really only useful from 1967 forward, and this accident took place in 1965), and AirDisaster.com's collection doesn't reach back that far.

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for it's GA-attempt? I would appreciate this if you had the time and I have carefully edited every nook and cranny of the article to fit every Wiki policy and I have modeled them like other FA and GA video game articles like

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time to work on it. Just looking over the article, I think it's quite do-able to whip the thing into shape for GA, especially since the page history shows there's a good two or three people actively working on the page.

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Meanwhile my operation has been put back up 29 Dec 2009. If you find time for the review that's nice - but the real priority is a great Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, have a great one. --

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Hi Mukkakukaku, i changed the sizes of images in the Getafe article cuz is more atractive like that, (i think)... I put most of the images too, in ALL cities of the all

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work gone into it I'm loathe to quick-fail it because it really demoralizes editors -- and I really hated it when it got done to me -- and I'd much rather work

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has made it difficult to keep this entry on there. I am going to notify the nominator as well and remove it from the list for the time being. Apologies,

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Hi and thanks for using this userbox! I thought you'd like to know that it can now support a second parameter to indicate how many times you have won

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p. 30. I just took "delivered to American Airlines" to mean "entered service with American Airlines." (Unless it means something different?) --

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I have that report in my files. It was published by the CAB on November 14th, 1966, and released on November 17th, and is 27 pages in length.

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to a tee, so it could potentially be a quick review. Anyways, it would be nice of you could, no harm if you can't. Happy edits,

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ahead of time that my opinion of the film is very low, mostly because I guessed the ending within 30 seconds of the start.... -

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page said that we should recommend others to review an article, so I was thinking it would be acceptable to ask you to review

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links to use it in your sandbox. I hope you don't mind. I was just cleaning up after the TFD closed. Best regards.

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