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** The 2010 Polish Tu-154 crash. The crew, surprisingly, ignores the "PULL UP" command from the TAWS systems; as the investigators found out, the pilots frequently landed on a small military or ex-military airports and the TAWS always went off [[note]]The TAWS has a database of major airports and does not alert the crew when they are simply about to land, but the rural military airfields were not in the database[[/note]], so they gradually learned to ignore the alerts during approach and landing. This time it was a fatal error.

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** The 2010 Polish Tu-154 crash. The crew, surprisingly, ignores the "PULL UP" command from the TAWS systems; as the investigators found out, the pilots frequently landed on a at small military or ex-military airports and the TAWS always went off [[note]]The TAWS has a database of major airports and does not alert the crew when they are simply about to land, but the rural military airfields were not in the database[[/note]], so they gradually learned to ignore the alerts during approach and landing. This time it was a fatal error.
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** The glaring example occurs in the Air France 447 episode, when one of the investigators detailedly explains what a stall is and how the Airbus behave after stalling, using cutouts and diagrams. While the audience in front of the [=TVs=] may not know this, in-universe he explains this to a group of ''aviation experts and aviation journalists'' who certainly know what an aerodynamic stall is...

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** The A rather glaring example occurs in the Air France 447 episode, when one of the investigators detailedly explains what a stall is and how the Airbus behave after stalling, using cutouts and diagrams. While the audience in front of the [=TVs=] may not know this, in-universe he explains this to a group of ''aviation experts and aviation journalists'' who certainly know what an aerodynamic stall is...
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--> "A lot of little things built up to believe that, uh, Fine Airlines wasn't, wasn't living up to its name."

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--> "A lot of little things built up to believe that, uh, Fine Airlines wasn't, [[IncompetenceInc wasn't living up to its name.name]]."
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** In "Deadly Detail", every passenger and the crew was able to evacuate the doomed plane, though it certainly helped that the fire only began when the plane had already landed and the engines had been shut down.
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** Fine Airlines 101 crashed because the cargo loaders didn't inform the pilots of the weight redistribution of the supplies at the rear of the plane due to them not fitting properly otherwise. The supervisor also underreported the total weight by more than 5,000 pounds because the weight of the pallets and nettings weren't accounted for. As a result, the flight engineer incorrectly calculated the plane's trimming to balance out its weight, leading to its crash shortly after takeoff.

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** Fine Airlines 101 crashed because the cargo loaders didn't inform the pilots of the weight redistribution of the supplies at to the rear of the plane due to them not fitting properly otherwise. The supervisor also underreported the total weight by more than 5,000 pounds because the weight of the pallets and nettings weren't accounted for. As a result, the flight engineer incorrectly calculated the plane's trimming to balance out its weight, leading to its crash shortly after takeoff.
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* IronicName: {{Lampshade|d}} in "Deadly Pitch" by Bob Benzon when his team discovered that Fine Airlines 101's total cargo weight was underreported by 5,000 pounds, among the other evidence leading to its crash.

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* IronicName: {{Lampshade|d}} {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in "Deadly Pitch" by Bob Benzon when his team discovered that Fine Airlines 101's total cargo weight was underreported by 5,000 pounds, among the other evidence leading to its crash.

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** "Lost": A 4-year-old girl was among the 4 survivors of American Airlines Flight 965. (Her brother was initially found alive, but died in the hospital from his injuries.)

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** "Lost": A 4-year-old girl was among the 4 survivors of American Airlines Flight 965. (Her Her brother was initially found alive, but died in the hospital from his injuries.)



* InnocenceLost: In the dramatization, two-year-old Felix Schenk's last moments were crying over the impending crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 as his mother comforts him, not aware he was about to die (a two-year-old can't grasp such concept as death), but fully aware something horrible is happening and terrified beyond belief. (Since there are no recordings in the cabin, it's unknown what he or any of the others actually experienced in their last moments.)

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* InnocenceLost: In the dramatization, two-year-old Felix Schenk's last moments were crying over the impending crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 as his mother comforts him, not aware he was about to die (a two-year-old can't grasp such concept as death), but fully aware something horrible is happening and terrified beyond belief. (Since Since there are no recordings in the cabin, it's unknown what he or any of the others actually experienced in their last moments.)moments.
* IronicName: {{Lampshade|d}} in "Deadly Pitch" by Bob Benzon when his team discovered that Fine Airlines 101's total cargo weight was underreported by 5,000 pounds, among the other evidence leading to its crash.
--> "A lot of little things built up to believe that, uh, Fine Airlines wasn't, wasn't living up to its name."


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** Fine Airlines 101 crashed because the cargo loaders didn't inform the pilots of the weight redistribution of the supplies at the rear of the plane due to them not fitting properly otherwise. The supervisor also underreported the total weight by more than 5,000 pounds because the weight of the pallets and nettings weren't accounted for. As a result, the flight engineer incorrectly calculated the plane's trimming to balance out its weight, leading to its crash shortly after takeoff.

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The pilots of Proteus Airlines Flight 706 and Loganair Flight 6780 are never once referred to by name, either during their introduction or during the credits, only being referred as "the Captain" and "the First Officer".



* NoNameGiven: The pilots of Proteus Airlines Flight 706 and Loganair Flight 6780 are never once referred to by name, either during their introduction or during the credits.

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