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Dreamliner set to land at American Airlines

By David Koenig
Published May 27, 2014 7:55pm ET
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Dreamliner set to land at American Airlines
In this photo made Friday, May 9, 2014, American Airlines pilots Bill Elder, left, and Jim Dees work inside a Boeing 787 flight simulator in Fort Worth, Texas. In the next few months, dozens of American Airlines pilots will sit in the same simulator and learn the nuances of the controls before they can fly the real plane, which the airline will begin using for passenger flights early next year. (AP Photo/LM Otero) | LM Otero

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Rumbling down the runway at New York’s JFK airport, American Airlines pilot Bill Elder points the nose of the Boeing 787 skyward and takes off for Denver.

Elder roars over the Atlantic, then banks sharply to the left, back over Queens and then Manhattan. But he is flying too low and triggers a ground-proximity warning as the Empire State Building appears off to the left.

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