Word: deeplyâ
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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Despite all of these precautions, pilots do occasionally crack up airplanes, and one of the main reasons?a reason that concerns the FAA deeply???is simply that they let their minds wander. In a term of the trade, cockpit discipline breaks down. One chilling example of this occurred on Sept. 11, 1974, when an Eastern DC-9, on a landing approach, hit the ground near Charlotte, N.C. While descending, the pilot?as the flight recorder later showed?chatted amiably about racial integration, Richard Nixon's pardon and the merits of Japanese cars. The pilot and 71 others died...
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