Flying can be a desperately stifling affair: hundreds of people crammed into a giant tin can with wings; everyone breathing their germs on each other while the stale aroma from all that dodgy processed plane food wafts around the cabin.
Passenger safety, the safety of the Indonesian people is everything, above everything else. For this reason, we need to pay close attention to every aviation accident anywhere.
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The episode also raised troubling new questions about the safety of a workhorse aircraft design dogged by years of problems and multiple deadly crashes.
The episode has raised troubling new questions about the safety of a workhorse aircraft design dogged by years of problems and multiple deadly crashes.