Softball-Size Hail Damages Airline Fleet
<i> Associated Press</i>
GRAPEVINE, Tex. —
American Airlines canceled 199 jet flights and about 100 commuter runs Monday throughout its system because hail as big as softballs damaged its fleet.
Fifty-one American jets and 24 smaller American Eagle planes remained out of service because of a Saturday night thunderstorm at the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport.
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