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Amateur Traveler, episode 117.

Today the amateur traveler goes to Syria and Jordan. You'll find some surprises in store whether it's the

modern life of the Bedouin or why you should stay at Patriot till after nightfall. fall.

Welcome to the Amateur Traveler.

I'm your host Chris Christensen.

Maybe not, maybe not so the day. Chris Christensen. I have three quick news stories for you today.

The first one is a little anticlimactic because we've been talking about it for a while. JetBlue became the first

American carrier to offer in-flight email.

I'll put a link to that details in the show notes, but those of you who had been flying

internationally may know that they're not the first carrier to offer

international email just the first in the U.S.

And speaking of flying internationally, the problems for Indonesian Airlines continue. You may have heard that they have been banned

from entering the airspace of many other countries because of their safety record.

In an article on travel mole titled Lost One Aircraft Wing Only One Owner.

There's a bizarre story coming out of Jakarta for the second time a matter of weeks

an Indonesian plane has lost part of a wing, but this time the authorities are having trouble identifying

the culprit.

In the latest incident, a 3 meter piece of a plane's wing has been found on the runway

in Jakarta, two weeks after a large chunk of wing fell off a passenger plane as it took off from the

Succarnohata International Airport.

New airline operator has reported the part missing since its discovery Tuesday on a runway.

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