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　　They have grown as major airlines have cut or changed their service. In fact, the big airlines often save money by using smaller ones to carry passengers. The pilots are paid less, and there are questions about whether they get enough training or rest.

　　The Federal Aviation Administration plans an industry safety meeting next week. And new legislation could be coming.

　　Congress is holding hearings into a crash in February near Buffalo, New York. The flight was operated for Continental Airlines by another company, Colgan Air. Fifty people died.

　　Deadly airline crashes are increasingly rare. But regional carriers have had four in the last five years, while major airlines have had one.

　　Transportation safety investigators held hearings this week into an accident that involved a major airline. Everyone survived the water landing of a US Airways jet on the Hudson River in New York in January. Birds disabled both engines. At the hearings, one of the subjects discussed was the increase in populations of large birds in North America that could threaten other planes.

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