It happened three years ago and you’ve read the story multiple times. Yet this article reads like a thriller, still: How brilliant cockpit design made Air France 447 crash into the ocean and killed 228 people.

From Weekly Filet #66, in May 2012.

Air France Flight 447: ‘Damn it, we’re going to crash’

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