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Lessons from the Air France Disaster

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What We Can Learn From Air France Flight 447 On the evening of May 31, 2009, 216 passengers and 12 crew members aboard Air France flight 447 disappeared into the South Atlantic. For almost two years, the mystery remained, until the back boxes were plucked from the sea floor nearly two miles deep, revealing that it was not poor weather conditions that brought down the plane, it was simple human error. In an age of such advanced technology, how could human error override a perfectly functioning airplane? Under pressure, human beings can lose their ability to think clearly and to…

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