Saying goodbye before a flight

December 28, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CST

Donna Palmeter, left, and her daughter Jessica Furse, right, say their goodbyes at the Columbia Regional Airport on Sunday. Despite an attempted terror attack on a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day, Furse and her husband still chose to fly from their home in Atlanta. "They feel pretty secure," Palmeter said.

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