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    MAX-IMUM DANGER

    Jan 07, 2020 2 minutes
    BY CARL VON WODTKE

    When airplanes fall out of the sky for no apparent reason, it gets people’s attention. Amid gruesome body counts and grieving families the focus turns to finding the crash’s cause—how could this have happened to what appeared to be a perfectly good aircraft? The answers are frequently complicated.

    Throughout aviation history certain airplanes have

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