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The Death of a British Air Force Flight
August 1985 was the deadliest month ever in commercial aviation. Can you imagine today if there were three major accidents where people died on airplanes? The single deadliest plane crash, Tenerife was the deadliest because it involved two planes. This is probably why exit seats are so big. Right. Having more space for them, even the entrance coming into the plane, the galley got widened from 22.5 inches to 30 inches. There's like the exit lighting on the ground. So if you're crawling, army crawling, 18 inches from the ground, you don't have to look up to see where the exits are. You know, like, oh, the lights turned red. There's there
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