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Steve Ranney was among the 39 passengers on Flight 3296. He s a commercial pilot with 20 years experience and still trying to understand what went wrong that day. I just don t think that we can flat accept that there s going to be accidents like this, Ranney said. I think that s really one of the more important things. I know people make mistakes, but in the air carrier world these things should not happen. This shouldn t have happened at all.
Ranney is still recovering from his injuries. A passenger to his left fared much worse: 38-year-old David Oltman was fatally injured in the crash. There were at least nine people hurt. Oltman s death on Oct. 17, 2019 was the second fatality for a commercial airline in the U.S. in the last decade.