Southwest pilots missed vital NOTAM before early-morning closed-runway take-off

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US investigators have disclosed that a runway-closure notice for Maine’s Portland Jetport was missed by pilots of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 before the aircraft departed the closed runway 29.

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