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Pilot Refuses to Declare Emergency / Avianca Flight 52 Runs Out of Fuel

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Flight 52

All three crew members were killed, along with five flight attendants and 64 passengers. The right side of the ford fuselage impacted and fractured the wooden deck of a residential home. If they had happened to come down on perfectly level ground, everyone might have survived this. That's what i was wondering wheneerwhenever they couldn't see the runawayi if they just landed, you know, their best spot,. like the least the plane might get mesed, but they would land right there.

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