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Old 28th February 2013 | 05:50
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India Four Two
 
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Not an altimeter error, but a mis-reading by the crew. There were several crashes in the sixties attributable to mis-reading the "three-pointer" altimeter, including an Iberia Caravelle descending into Heathrow:

Iberia Airlines Flight 062 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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