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pretty weird...

  NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFEN'BOAFID
  :J11...:i= of ArutiOn SMel@LA5 301
  A.,r Tral1C.IYU';UQlt-Ort!!
  NTS,B ri@ss @at.Joo JurtJer
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These all seem like OCR errors...? Why would there be OCR in this workflow? Did they print this out and then generate a PDF from a scan instead of the original source? To maintain an air gap maybe?

it would seem so. so the question is why they would maintain an air gap for a safety report

It's a good policy. Document formats like to include lots of random junk, better to be safe.

Also it prevents redactions from being disclosed.

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