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No harm was done on Continental Express Flight 2816 but the comedy of errors that befell the 47 passengers on a crowded Embraer regional jetliner was ghastly enough to warrant the retelling by NBC's Anne Thompson and CBS' Cynthia Bowers. The tale of woe occurred on the tarmac at the Rochester Airport in Minnesota. The Minneapolis-bound flight had been diverted there because of rough weather. By the time it landed the pilots had reached their limit for hours worked and so were unable to take off again. Terminal security personnel had gone home for the night so passengers were forbidden to enter. There followed almost six hours trapped inside the plane cabin on the runway--no food, no legroom and a single toilet that "backed up and began to reek," as CBS' Bowers put it. And the terminal, a passenger complained to NBC's Thompson, was just 50 yards away.
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