Refusing To Learn From Mistakes / The Turkish Airlines Flight 981 Tragedy
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The Airworthiness Directive Never Really Goes Out
Normally when there's an incident, like with american airlines flight, the nt s b makes recommendations in the f a a. Since the d c ten was so brand new, the ceo, douglas, was afraid that this would be bad publicity for the d c 10. He didn't want an airworthiness directive going out, so he made what's called a gentleman's agreement to make sure they did all their maintenance. It was kind of like a wink and like, ok, wory, we'll take care of this. But guess what? They didn't. Not every airline took care of it, which is why we're now talking about turkish flight nine,
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