On Friday, a direct flight from Washington, D.C. to Wichita’s Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport brought the bodies of the Kansans involved in the crash back to the Sunflower State.

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Pilots and flight attendants are aware of risks, but commercial aviation tragedies have been infrequent in the U.S. for years ...