Refusing To Learn From Mistakes / The Turkish Airlines Flight 981 Tragedy
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The Defective Closing of the Cargo Door
Instructions saying to verify it were written in languages that the ground crew did not understand. The viewport was also small. They dus controlld a hole. That was another contributing factor. Although there was apparent redundancy of the flight control systems, the fact that the pressure relief vents between the cargo compartment and the passenger cabin were inadequate. And they knew about this all this was evidenced by that ameria airlines flight that happened two years early. In that flight as well, they had difficulty controlling the plane, but they managed to land it.
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