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A dispatcher watches a flight she never released land on time at an airport it was never bound for.

At 4:41 on a December afternoon, in a windowless operations room with forty-two screens and no daylight, Anjali Ellison watches a green diamond stop moving over Pueblo Memorial. The tail number is legal. The certificate is current. The flight plan is closed. There is no dispatch release behind any of it.

Forty-one flights in two years. All of them legal. All of them going nowhere.