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Old 29th Dec 2020, 23:11
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tdracer
 
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I finally got a chance to watch the above video. Rather damning yet somehow understandable. The predisposition to assume the fault was with engine 4 when engine 3 failed was really the primary cause - with everything else unfortunately following (wasn't that also a factor in that turboprop that crashed in Taiwan a few years back?).

I'm finding myself very conflicted. As I've noted previously, I'd flown on Nine-O-Nine about 12 years ago, and greatly valued the experience, but I'm dismayed by the lack of accountability and oversight that lead to this crash. Coincidentally I just received a donation request from the Collings Foundation.
Part of me wants to make a donation to preserve the sort of experience I received on Nine-O-Nine, but part of me is reluctant to support the apparently shoddy operations that lead to this crash...
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