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Nov. 29, 2000: Presidential election legal disputes: A graphic comparison (150KB graphic)
A look at Bush's lead (19KB graphic)

For 17 days, a Democratic Senate? Gore’s tie-breaking vote likely to give his party control Jan. 3. THAT’S BECAUSE, barring a change in the outcome of the tight Senate race in Washington state, the Senate will be tied 50-50 for the first time in more than a century on Jan. 3. More NBC News.

Nov. 28, 2000: Gore: Ignoring uncounted Florida votes is ignoring democracy. CNN.

Text of Gore complaint contesting election. Vice president asks Florida court to review vote in 3 counties. More NBC News.

Nov. 27, 2000: Bush Claims Victory But Gore to Fight On. Sunday’s extraordinary events turned on Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris’ declaration that Bush had officially won the state’s popular vote.

Harris, a Bush supporter, made the announcement just two hours after a deadline expired for counties to turn in their presidential ballots. The final tally gave Bush 2,912,790 votes to Gore’s 2,912,253 a difference of just 537 votes. More ABC News.

Gore says he'll win if uncounted votes are tallied. Campaign aides say Gore won the election by nine votes, based on votes counted but not certified by the state.

As the Democrats see it, Gore should have picked up 157 votes from Miami-Dade County and another 215 votes from Palm Beach County. On top of that, Democrats argue that 174 overseas absentee ballots that went to Bush should have been disqualified.

When the 372 uncounted Gore votes are added to his certified total and the 174 Bush votes are subtracted from his final count, Gore comes out ahead by nine votes. More CNN.

Nov. 24, 2000: Supreme Court to Hear Recount Case. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to take up the dispute between Republican candidate George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore over the validity of manual recounts in Florida’s still-contested presidential election.

Lawyers for both campaigns are scheduled to make their cases in an hour and a half of oral arguments before the court beginning at 10 a.m. ET on Dec. 1. Briefs are due from the two sides at 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Nov. 28, and reply briefs at 4 p.m. ET on Thursday, Nov. 30. More ABC News.

Interpreting Votes. Florida, Like Most States, Lets Counties Determine Meaning of ‘Chad’. More ABC News.

Cheney recovering after heart attack. GOP running mate reported in good condition; may leave hospital Friday. More NBC News.

GOP hatches plan to block Gore. House leaders weigh options to discount electoral votes......Although the proposal has little chance of passage, the fact that Republicans have begun contemplating legislative remedies to the controversy surrounding the presidential vote in Florida reflects the increasing bitterness within the GOP over the election.

And it suggests a growing willingness by GOP lawmakers to consider intervening in the counting of electoral votes at a joint session of Congress on Jan. 5 should Gore emerge from the recount with Florida’s crucial electors. More NBC News.

Nov. 22, 2000: Florida Supreme Court: Sunday deadline is ordered."The right of people to cast their vote is the paramount concern overriding all others." The justices also said their decision was based on a 25-year-old court ruling that noted the will of the people, not the hyper-technical reliance upon statutory provisions count.

All hand-counted ballots must be in by 5 p.m. Sunday -- if Secretary of State Katherine Harris opens her office for business. Otherwise, county canvassing boards have until 9 a.m. the following day, which is November 27, to submit their revised numbers. More CNN. Text: Florida Supreme Court ruling.

Nov. 21, 2000: Fate of the Nation Nation Waits for Florida High Court. Florida’s highest court could rule as early as this morning on whether to allow thousands of hand counted votes to be included in final vote tallies in the disputed presidential election in the state—and, thus, whether Al Gore or George W. Bush gets the states crucial 25 electoral votes. ABC News. (video included)
Transcript: Florida Supreme Court Complete text of the hearing. PROFILES: Supreme Court Justices.

Nov. 20, 2000: Justices weigh recount today. Decision may not end legal challenges. Yet partisans on both sides indicated Sunday they may not accept the state Supreme Court's decision on hand recounts as the final word in an election unresolved two weeks after Election Day. Miami Herald.

Nov. 19, 2000:
Official List of People Accompany the President to Vietnam.
Text of Clinton address at Vietnam National University. Including photo slideshow by Mercury News. Clinton makes groundbreaking Vietnam speech in video by CNN. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton tries on a traditional Vietnamese conical hat. Photos 1, 2, 3 by SF. Examiner.

Video linked directely without clicking thru many CNN pages:
Hanoi University, Part 1, part 2- Interview part1, part 2, part 3 and business meeting in Saigon (Vietnamese translation also in this video).

Clinton calls for openness on final day in Vietnam. "I came here in part because I believe America and Vietnam are linked not just by a shared and often tragic past that must be honored and remembered, but because we have a bright future that we can build together." "Today we have a shared interest in your well-being and your prosperity," he added. "We have a stake in your future, and we wish to be your partners." CNN.

Vietnam visit triggers reaction Bay Area residents have a mixed response to Clinton's overtures. By Tyche Hendricks OF THE EXAMINER STAFF. While President Clinton was greeted by throngs of enthusiastic Vietnamese citizens on the streets of Hanoi last week, the reaction to his trip among Vietnamese Americans in the Bay Area was more guarded, though generally optimistic.

Some members of the Vietnamese community here, especially the older generation, are disappointed with Clinton's overtures to the Communist government of Vietnam, but they recognize it as an inevitable step in U.S. foreign policy, said Dat Nguyen, executive director of the Vietnamese-American Council, a group that provides social services to the elderly. More SF. Examiner.

Blow by blow: How vote drama unfolded. Miami Herald.

The Florida Supreme Court's ruling on certifying votes in the presidential election:
"In order to maintain the status quo, the Court, on its own motion, enjoins the Respondent, Secretary of State and Respondent, the Elections Canvassing Commission, from certifying the results of the November 7, 2000 presidential election, until further notice of this Court.

It is NOT the intent of this Order to stop the counting and conveying to the Secretary of State the results of absentee ballots or any other ballots."

Nov. 18, 2000: Foreign votes boost 930 to Bush. The Associated Press reported that Bush’s lead had stretched from 300 to 930 in the battle for Florida’s 25 electoral votes, which will almost certainly decide the presidency. NBC News.

Clinton in Ho Chi Minh City on last day of historic Vietnam trip. Thousands of Vietnamese lined the president's route from Tan Son Nhut Airport to his hotel, many waving and cheering in stark contrast to Clinton's earlier visit to the site where Air Force Capt. Lawrence Evert's plane went down on November 8, 1967.

Before leaving for Ho Chi Minh City -- the former Saigon, capital of what was once South Vietnam -- Clinton visited Communist Party headquarters for a brief meeting with party secretary Le Kha Phieu. Back at the presidential palace, President Tran Duc Luong gave Clinton two albums filled with photos of his trip and said it was "a shame" the visit was so short. More CNN.

Nov. 17, 2000: Toward the Future Clinton Pays Tribute to U.S. and Vietnamese Dead;Looks Forward. H A N O I, Vietnam, Nov. 17 In the first live, nationally televised speech by a foreign head of state here, the first U.S. president to visit Vietnam since the war called for a new chapter in U.S.-Vietnamese relations.

While most of Clinton’s uncontroversial remarks were rendered clearly, Reuters reported that the translation became hopelessly garbled when Clinton touched on human rights.

For example, Clinton’s words: In our experience, guaranteeing the right to religious worship and the right to political dissent does not threaten the stability of the society; instead it builds people’s confidence in the fairness of the institution...

Became the equivalent of: According to our experience, the issue of allowing worshipping, allowing, (pause) that does not affect the regime but to improve our regime...

Vietnamese who listened to the speech said the poor translation made Clinton’s remarks on human rights totally incomprehensible. But embassy officials said they bore sole responsibility for the shoddy translation. The translator was ours, national security spokesman PJ Crowley, told ABCNEWS.

Tumultuous crowd welcomes Clinton to Hanoi. No apology planned for years of war. (CNN) -- U.S. President Bill Clinton has opened a new chapter in relations with Hanoi on Friday during the first visit to communist Vietnam by a serving U.S. president.

Thousands of people gathered in clusters along the route from Hanoi's international airport just before midnight Thursday in what was believed to be the largest turnout ever for a visiting head of state.

"This only happens once in a thousand years," said Hanoi homemaker Tran Thi Lan, 50.

Both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon visited the former South Vietnam as president during the long Vietnam War, which ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975. But Clinton is the first to visit the unified country, and the first in the capital city of Hanoi. More CNN.

'Hanging chads' often viewed by courts as sign of voter intent. "If the intent of the voter can be determined with reasonable certainty from an inspection of the ballot ... effect must be given to that intent and the vote counted," the Massachusetts court ruled.

It said a voter who failed to push out the chad completely "could have done a better job expressing his or her intent. (But) Such a voter should not automatically be disqualified."

"Nothing in our election code ... requires voters to completely dislodge the chad from the ballot before their vote will be counted," the court ruled. More CNN.

Nov. 16, 2000: Gore Seized the Moment. Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), the ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, said he thought Gore was being "awfully generous" in the terms he offered."It's either extremely patriotic or he knows something this member [of Congress] doesn't know," Conyers said.

Bush aides said, however, that the offer of a statewide hand count was less generous than it seemed. Looking at precinct returns even in counties carried by Bush, they said, more spoiled or uncounted ballots may have been cast by Democrats than by Republicans. More Washinngton Post.

No More Recounts Florida Secretary of State Rejects Counties’ Appeal For More Time . On Wednesday, Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach, met the 2 p.m. ET deadline set by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris for each to explain why new hand-count tallies submitted after the deadline should replace earlier machine recount totals.

Later that day, Harris said the counties’ presentation of the facts failed to meet adequate criteria to modify the tallies. “The reasons given in the requests are insufficient to warrant waiver of the unambiguous filing deadline imposed by the Florida Legislature,” Harris said. More ABC News.

Harris Employs Law Firm With Ties to Jeb Bush. For an elected official such as Harris to hire outside experts in such a complex and high-stakes proceeding as the Florida election dispute is not unusual. Harris, a former real estate agent and state senator, has little experience in electoral law, and high turnover on her staff has left her with few in-house experts on the subject.

"It becomes clearer and clearer by every action she takes, every statement she makes, that she is still the co-chairman of the Bush campaign of Florida and not our secretary of state," said Bob Poe, chairman of the Florida Democratic Party. "It's my guess that she gets a substantial portion of her marching orders right out of Austin." More Washinngton Post.

Nov. 15, 2000: Latest developments:
Florida Supreme Court refuses to block recounts. 'We have considered this petition and have determined that the decision should be denied,'' the unanimous seven-member court wrote in a brief order. The court ruled this afternoon without holding a hearing on the request by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. More Miami Herald.

The vice president promises not to appeal if Bush accepts his deal. More Washingtoon Post.

Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris filed an emergency petition with the Florida Supreme Court today seeking to halt all manual vote recounts in the state.

Official tally: Bush leads by 300 votes. The latest margin for Bush was 286 votes, according to an informal AP tally.Republican candidate George W. Bush now holds an official 300-vote lead in Florida, and Palm Beach County -- a Democratic stronghold with thousands of votes in question -- today launches a full manual recount that could help determine the presidential election. More Miami Herald.

The Woman Behind Florida’s Recount. Republican George W. Bush has a staunch ally in the woman overseeing the Florida recount, Secretary of State Katherine Harris. A longstanding GOP loyalist, promises she'll leave partisanship at the door as she oversees the state's crucial recount. More ABC News.

N.M. race tilts back toward Gore. The close presidential race in New Mexico, which has been seesawing back and forth since the election, tilted back to Democrat Al Gore by 375 votes Tuesday after an error of 500 votes was found. More NBC News.
Text of Tuesday's ruling by Leon County (Fla.) Circuit Judge Terry P. Lewis of ruling on recount deadline.

Nov. 14, 2000: Recounts are based on Florida statutes. Two state statutes in a letter Monday outlining their decision to uphold a 5 p.m. deadline. Here they are: More Miami Herald.

Judge's ruling allows hand counts to proceed. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks said the question of halting recounts is not a matter for federal courts and properly belongs in state court. More Miami Herald.

Nov. 13, 2000: Florida secretary of state refuses to move Tuesday deadline. More Miami Herald.

Clinton sets off on historic trip to Asia Highlight: Visit to Vietnam. The emotional highlight of the trip is certain to be Clinton's visits to Hanoi, the capital of a unified Vietnam, and to Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, the capital of the former South Vietnam. More CNN. Vietnam Echoes of War.

Nov. 12, 2000: 17:11 P.T Florida Recount Unofficial Tally From AP New Margin after hand recount: 288 in favor of Bush in Florida. (Al Gore had picked up 36 votes and Bush had lost three. Gore also won six more votes in Volusia County and Bush collected one during the first examination of write-in ballots there).

Text of Bush campaign request to temporarily halt manual ballot recount. By The Associated Press. High Risk Strategy. News Analysis.

Tragicomedy of Errors Fuels Volusia Recount. DELAND, Fla. Something very strange happened on election night to Deborah Tannenbaum, a Democratic Party official in Volusia County.

At 10 p.m., she called the county elections department and learned that Al Gore was leading George W. Bush 83,000 votes to 62,000. But when she checked the county's Web site for an update half an hour later, she found a startling development: Gore's count had dropped by 16,000 votes, while an obscure Socialist candidate had picked up 10,000--all because of a single precinct with only 600 voters. More Wahington Post.

Bush Team Prepares 'Scorched-Earth' Plan. The strategy is to challenge Gore's close wins in Iowa, Wisconsin and, perhaps, Oregon.

If successful in Wisconsin with 11 electoral votes and either Oregon or Iowa, with 7 each, Bush could then, under this scenario, still win in the electoral college without Florida's 25 votes.

That depends on keeping New Mexico in the Bush column. If New Mexico flips back to Gore, Bush would have to overturn the outcome in all three other states--Wisconsin, Iowa and Oregon--to make up for the loss of Florida.

The hypothetical winning combinations for Bush, with Wisconsin and without Florida, are:
* He wins Oregon and Iowa to get to 271 votes.
* He wins either Oregon or Iowa, along with New Mexico and one vote from Maine, to get to 270. More Wahington Post.

Nov. 11, 2000: Florida Recount Unofficial Tally From AP New Margin: 327 in favor of Bush 67 of 67 counties reporting. Al Gore appears to have won in Oregon. In New Mexico, George W. Bush has taken a razor-thin, 17-vote lead over Al Gore.

Palm Beach voters complained early. Upset citizens warned others, appealed to officials. HISTORIC DAY OF CONFUSION. It was just before 8 a.m. Tuesday. A historic day of confusion, frustration and, ultimately, outrage in Palm Beach County was only beginning.

By mid-morning on Election Day, upset voters were calling their county commissioners, state legislators and other elected officials to complain and to beg that something be done.

By mid-afternoon, they were bombarding a popular local radio talk show with calls about the bungled ballots. And by then, county election supervisor Theresa LaPore, designer of the butterfly ballot that caused the confusion, had sent around a hastily written memo advising poll workers to remind voters to be careful.

Calls to LaPore’s office for guidance were met with a constant busy signal. By the time the complaints were loudest, it was probably already too late.

By 2:30 p.m., Frankel was at LaPore’s office, joined by Klein and U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler (D), demanding that LaPore warn voters about the confusion. Robert M. Brochin, a local lawyer representing the Democratic National Committee, sent two letters to LaPore, complaining about the Palm Beach County ballots.

URGENT MEMO Frankel said LaPore told him that with 500 polling places in the county, there was no way to communicate with workers at each one unless they happened to call in. She readily wrote up a memo, however.

By then, it was almost 4 p.m., and Frankel doubts many of the fliers made their way to the precincts. It was like spitting in the wind, she said, adding that she has since received more than 500 phone calls of complaint. More Washington Post.

Nov. 10, 2000: Florida Recount Unofficial Tally From AP New Margin: 327 in favor of Bush 67 of 67 counties reporting.
Recount wait offers insight into candidates. Coping with the pressure. After enormous effort for well over a year, George W. Bush and Al Gore each found themselves this week facing a hung election and coping with enormous pressure as their own futures -- and the White House -- teeter in the balance.

How are they handling it? What can we learn from their behavior that might tell us how they deal with crisis?

Bush fell back on his standard game plan for times of trouble: He sought advice from Republican elders and found solace in his family, aides said, and projected an aura of unbending self-confidence.

Gore, huddling with his inner circle in a ninth-floor hotel suite in Nashville, put himself at the nucleus of efforts to prove that he actually won Florida and the presidency. He exuded calm self-control and determination in equal measure, according to aides. More SJMN.

Garden Grove's new councilman is out thanking supporters. He is the second Vietnamese American to win an O.C. election. It was the day after a grueling, if victorious campaign for a Garden Grove City Council seat.

But Van Thai Tran, 36, was back on the street Wednesday--thanking everyone who helped make him the city's first Vietnamese American elected official.

Tran was in first place ahead of eight candidates, with Rosen in second place trailing him by about 2,034 votes. "I worked hard for this campaign, so I knew I would win; but I didn't know I would win by that many votes," said an elated Tran, who will be representing what may be the county's most diverse city, where Anglos, Latinos and Asians each make up about a third of Garden Grove's population.

Regarded as a calm, articulate man with rare ability to build consensus and solve problems, Tran was a liaison to Westminster police and protesters during 53 days of massive demonstrations in Little Saigon in early 1999 over the flying of a communist flag at a local video store. More LA. Times.

Nov. 9, 2000: Nation awaits Florida recount results. Latest tally: Bush’s lead drops below 1,000 votes. With the latest unofficial recount total, Bush was leading Gore by 941 votes. Before the recount, Bush was leading Gore by 1,784 votes. With votes in 32 of 67 counties recounted. The recount included figures from Palm Beach County, which released its recount total at 11 p.m. ET. More NBC News.

The 90-second call from Gore to Bush. The night that would not end. George W. Bush did not take his call happily. You don’t have to get snippy about this, Gore spat. when Vice President Gore phoned the Texas Governor’s Mansion to take back what he’d said about conceding the election to George W. Bush.

Circumstances have changed dramatically since I first called you, Gore told Bush, according to aides to both men who heard each side of the conversation.

News from Florida very late news indicated the gap had closed once more in the decisive state and there would be an automatic recount. The state of Florida is too close to call, Gore said.

Are you saying what I think you’re saying? Bush asked brusquely, disbelievingly. Let me make sure that I understand. You’re calling back to retract that concession? Don’t get snippy about it! Gore spat back.

Let me explain, he continued. If Bush prevailed in the final count, Gore would immediately offer the Texas governor his full support. . . . But I don’t think we should be going out making statements with the state of Florida still in the balance.

Jeb’s research showed a Bush victory, as George W. now reported to Gore. I don’t think this is something your brother can take care of, the vice president answered coolly.

(Another aide remembers it this way: With all due respect to your brother, he is not the final arbiter of who wins Florida. Still another aide recalls that Gore specifically noted that Jeb is the younger brother.)

Do what you have to do, Bush said frostily. Gore put down the phone. The suppressed bile of a long campaign had bubbled through the 90-second call. More MSNBC.

Nov. 8, 2000: Elections 2000!
The presidency: Too Close to call. Al Gore or George W. Bush?

Here is the elctoral college guides from ABC news. And real time vote results of presidential race. Results on line with electoral votes of each state including popular votes from Washington Post.

Vietnameses run in Orange County: Van Tran, a Vietnamese lawyer received the top votes in Garden Grove of 12,453 or 25.3% to become a city councilmember there. While in Westminster, with three Vietnamese candidates, Andy Quach received 5,601 votes or 17.5%, Phuoc Bui 2,017 or 6.3% and Nguyen Tan Duoc 1,720 0r 5.3% -- the top two to be won received 24.6% and 23.4 % respectively. Details. Santa Clara County results.

No official declaration of Al Gore or George W. Bush to have won the State of Florida yet. As of 1:30 am Wednesday, from Florida Secretary of State web site., Bush: 2,904,198 votes - Gore: 2,902,988 votes, with 1,210 votes diffrerences and thousands of absentee ballots from overseas uncounted or 5000 or so votes. Gore may have more popular votes than Bush as a matter of fact, as the the day unfolds in front of us today.

However, we may have to wait for sometimes to know who would be the president of the United States. Electoral college as of now: Al Gore 260 - Bush 246. With 270 to become the president.

Nov. 6, 2000: ELECTION NIGHT TV Here is what the networks, local stations and cable channels:
KTVU (Ch. 2): Will begin updates at 5 p.m. and joins Fox News coverage at 8 to 10 p.m. The regular 10 p.m. newscast will be expanded to at least two hours with KICU (Ch. 36) picking up a simulcast at 11 p.m.

KRON (Ch. 4): NBC coverage begins at 3:30 p.m with local news from 4 to 5 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m. and newsbreaks twice an hour. Local coverage starts at 10 p.m. with a simulcast on BayTV.

KPIX (Ch. 5): CBS coverage will be carried from 3 to 10 p.m. with local reports twice an hour. Local news begins at 10 p.m.

KGO (Ch. 7): A mix of ABC and local news from 3 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. Network election coverage begins at 4:30 p.m. with local news twice an hour. Full local report starts at 10 p.m.

KQED (Ch. 9): Latest results on ``NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'' at 3 and 7 p.m.

KNTV (Ch. 11): Coverage begins at 8 p.m. KBWB (Ch. 20) will carry simulcast starting at 10 p.m.

CNN: Coverage begins at 2 p.m. and goes through the night.

Fox News: A 5 p.m. start with the 8-10 p.m. coverage simulcast on KTVU. MSNBC: Election news takes over at 4 p.m. and runs through the evening. Source: Mercury News staff reports.

Nov. 4, 2000: DUI report jolts Bush camp. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush struggled through one of the final days of his campaign Friday while aides tried to defend his lack of candor about a conviction 24 years ago for driving under the influence of alcohol.

But they said that if the long-hidden arrest raised new questions about Bush's candor, credibility or trustworthiness -- all traits he has stressed this fall -- the political fallout could be damaging. More SJMN.

Lawyer led police officer to tip reporter to '76 Bush arrest. PORTLAND, Maine. So the 43-year-old lawyer was easily overheard Thursday when he was sounding off to colleagues about a revelation: Bush had been arrested 24 years ago in Kennebunkport for drunken driving.

A police officer who heard the courthouse conversation passed the news to a TV reporter, Erin Fehlau. She spotted Connolly later in the day, and the lawyer agreed to give her a copy of a court document about Bush's case. The story was out.

How Bush's DUI arrest reached Connolly's ears is a story in itself. He tells it like this: Thursday morning, a patient whose name Connolly does not know was lying on the table of a similarly unidentified Portland chiropractor.

The patient said he could not understand how the campaign season had almost passed without word getting out that Bush had been convicted of drunken driving in 1976 -- a fact the patient could attest to because he had been arraigned for the same thing at the same time. More SJMN.

Nov. 3, 2000: Clinton Sings Gore's Praises In 2-Day Visit to California. In the nation's most populous state, where Clinton holds a 72 percent approval rating for his job performance, the president's busy schedule underscores his power to turn out Democratic voters -- and his draw for Democratic candidates in tight races.

Clinton is scheduled to make three stops in the Bay Area today: a 9 a.m. public rally at the Oakland Federal Building plaza, an 11 a.m. stop at Moscone Center in San Francisco and a 2:30 event at the San Jose Civic Auditorium. Attendees at both the San Jose and San Francisco events will be admitted with tickets distributed through local Democratic Party offices. More SF. Chronical.

MeetChina.com, Vietnam firm to ink e-commerce deal. HANOI (Reuters) - MeetChina.com, a U.S.-based online sourcing company, and a Vietnamese Internet and software firm will sign an e-commerce deal during U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit to Vietnam this month, an executive said on Friday.

Le Hong Son, marketing director of Vietnam's state-run Corporation of Financing and Promoting Technology (FPT) said the deal would promote e-commerce between Vietnam and the United States. ``We will sign it during the visit to Vietnam by President Bill Clinton,'' Son told Reuters but declined to give further details. FPT set up a representative office in the U.S. high-tech heartland Silicon Valley in January to promote its software business.More SJMN.

Nov. 2, 2000: Passenger list from Singapore Airlines Flight SQ006. ACCIDENT: Families question why the pilot of Flight SQ006 decided to take off in heavy rain and gusts. More OC. Register.

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