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When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver (1999)

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Mechanical aircraft weight and balance computer using whippletrees

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Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236

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Latam Airlines Airbus A320neo hits fire engine on runway during take-off

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I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (2009)

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The Case of the Missing Fuel: The story of the Stockport air disaster

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Weightless: Parabolic flight on an A310

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Suspected counterfeit components found in ejection seat after fatal F-16 crash

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Cirrus Vision Jet Pilot Pulls Chute in Florida

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The ejector seats that fire through the floor

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How the US Air Force Ditched the Average and Saved Lives

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Qantas ferried an engine on the wing of a 747 (2016)

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French fighter jet joy ride goes très, très wrong (2020)

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Pilot Says Too Many Jumpers Outside Led to King Air Spin

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Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (2001)

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I was there when the DC-8 went supersonic

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The inventor of the black box was told to drop the idea

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Holden's Lightning Flight

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Flight incident: Passengers titled ‘Miss’ counted as children [pdf]

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In two incidents, F-16 aviators were rendered unconscious, but saved by software

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Toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes

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Romain Grosjean walked away from F1’s scariest crash in decades

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British Airways Flight 5390

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The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas

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How a preventable disaster killed six marines

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The Crash of United Flight 232 (2017)

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What it's like to eject out of a military jet

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Boeing 737 Unpaved Strip Kit

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David Warren, inventor of the flight voice and data recorder

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Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (2001)

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My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames

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'I’ve become isolated': the aftermath of near-doomed QF72

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Cessna 188 Pacific Rescue

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Belgian Air Force F-16 destroyed by fire during maintenance

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Pilots who risk their lives flying tiny planes over the Atlantic

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If a pilot ejects, what is the autopilot programmed to do?

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Woman Partially Sucked Out of Jet When Window Breaks

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Spirit A319 at Boston, Jul 17th 2015, fumes on board, captain died 50 days later

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Ejection Decision (2016)

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I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived

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Lightning aircraft crash at Hatfield (2013)

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Air France A380 over Greenland on Sep 30th: Fan and engine inlet separated

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Honda system confused by Alonso taking Pouhon flat

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Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips

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LX40 – A New Engine in Iqaluit

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An account of a serious medical emergency on a transoceanic flight

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Don Bateman’s terrain mapping device

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Automated to Death (2009)

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Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident

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How Qantas Ferried an Engine on the Wing of a 747

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Pilots who risk their lives flying tiny planes over the Atlantic

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60 years ago: The famous Boeing 707 prototype barrel roll over Lake Washington

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Germanwings plane crash: Co-pilot 'wanted to destroy plane'

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Pilot Who Survived Space Crash Says Parachute Opened Itself

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Fly the Airplane

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What it's like to skydive through a thunderstorm

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Air France Flight 447: A detailed meteorological analysis

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A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32

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Thanks to Don Bateman, airplanes don't crash into mountains anymore (2016)

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A legal and moral question: The crash of Turkish Airlines flight 981 (2021)

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Why you've never been in a plane crash

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In 1950, a U.S. troop plane vanished without a trace in the Yukon

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A bad day at the office

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Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on

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The unstallable plane that stalled

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Martin-Baker Ejection Seat Made Its First of 7,722 Saves 75 Years Ago Today

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Aster shootdown over Sydney in 1955

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