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<p>ARLINGTON, Va. -- The power is out at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., bringing flights and security screening to a standstill.</p>

Officials ordered nine Muslim passengers, including three young children, off an AirTran flight headed to Orlando from Reagan National Airport yesterday afternoon after two other passengers overheard what they thought was a suspicious remark. Members of the party, all but one of them U.S.-born citizens who were headed to a religious retreat in Florida, were subsequently cleared for travel by FBI agents who characterized the incident as a misunderstanding, an airport official said. But the passengers said AirTran refused to rebook them, and they had to pay for seats on another carrier secured with help from the FBI. Kashif Irfan,...

WBZ) BOSTON 5 crew members of a U.S. Airways flight became ill on a flight to Boston Monday morning. The airline says the two pilots and three flight attendants were working on Flight 2022, a Star Alliance shuttle from Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. to Logan Airport when they got sick. The flight landed at Logan without incident. The crew was treated by emergency medical services at the gate. EMS told WBZ it took the five to Massachusetts General Hospital with symptoms similar to carbon monoxide poisoning. There were 81 passengers on the plane. None of them were ill. A...

<p>Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta announced yesterday that Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has been cleared to return to pre-September 11 flight levels by April 15.</p> <p>The airport, which was the last commercial airport to reopen after the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center shut down the country's aviation industry, has been gradually increasing its capacity and can return to full capacity — 800 daily flights — next month, the Transportation Department said.</p>