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Old 31st Dec 2019, 09:32
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The full ProPublica article (linked from the page given by ORAC) has more on the involvement of higher commanders and makes depressing reading indeed. Their defence that aviators are empowered to say ‘no’ seems risible given their apparent failure to act upon years’-worth of warnings.
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