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Article: Where airplanes go to die
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- March 28, 2009
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Caroline Brothers The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
03-28-2009
Where airplanes go to die
Byline: Caroline Brothers The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 4
Section: FINANCE/BUSINESS
CHTEAUROUX, France --
Scrap yard keeps busy as economy forces jets into early retirement All the ills in a bleak industry are on display in this forgotten corner of aviation
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A windswept plateau in the center of France is an unlikely place to assess the health of the world's airline industry. Yet nowhere are the fortunes of global aviation displayed as starkly as on this remote stretch of pavement, which was one of the biggest U.S. Air Force bases in Europe during the Cold War.
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