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I read this in an old 1950s era Readers Digest (Harper Subscribers only). Interesting (fictional) article about a jet that was doomed before takeoff by an accum
by gadiyar 5y ago
I read this in an old 1950s era Readers Digest (Harper Subscribers only). Interesting (fictional) article about a jet that was doomed before takeoff by an accumulation of a number of small things each of which would not individually have caused an incident but taken together were fatal.
https://harpers.org/archive/1957/09/the-jet-that-crashed-before-take-off/ https://harpers.org/archive/1957/09/the-jet-that-crashed-bef...
Edit: Accessible version of the article here.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=2gk-2rP34LIC&pg=RA2-PA14&lpg=RA2-PA14&dq=beirne+lay+jet+crashed+before+tskeoff&source=bl&ots=HxvoYfS4yR&sig=ACfU3U3OA3bURmayOwA34QAqRToqZ_Dgsw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjV84__sOryAhUPfH0KHaPfDicQ6AF6BAgsEAI#v=onepage&q=beirne%20lay%20jet%20crashed%20before%20takeoff&f=true https://books.google.co.in/books?id=2gk-2rP34LIC&pg=RA2-PA14...