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WASHINGTON - One in five airline pilots lives at least 750 miles from work, according to a study by scientific advisers to the government, raising concerns that long commutes to airports could lead to fatigue in the cockpit. The calculations were based on home addresses of more than 25,000 pilots. Six percent of pilots listed a primary residence at least 1,500 miles from the airline base where they begin flights, according to a National Research Council report released Wednesday. Although a significant share of pilots list addresses hundreds of miles from their base, it's not clear that they routinely begin their commutes to work from those...

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