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Decoder with Nilay Patel · 2025-03-06 · 42 min · 8,040 words

Flying is still safe, for now — but the FAA isn’t

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That's A T T. Io dot com slash decoder. Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Nila Patel, editor in chief of the Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. So I was on a flight back home to New York the other day and something really odd happened when we landed. Passengers all burst into applause.

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