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was not working properly, confusing the pilots about whether the plane's speed was too fast or too slow. Massive negative publicity about
Birgenair and other discount flight organizers in Germany following the disaster caused a sharp decline in reservations, and finally the company went into
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and 9 Polish people, were killed. It was found that one of the air speed indicators of the
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71:April 1996
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