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Deadliest Single Aircraft Accident

Black Box Down

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What Happened to the Vertical Stabilizer?

The accident investigation commission calculated that because of the way that they did this repair, that it would fail after about 10,000 pressurization cycles. The plane actually went through 12,318. They realized this after a while. Because no one knew the repair was done improperly.

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