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By William Langewiesche · Vanity Fair · December 2008
William Langewiesche on the Amazon air crash
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"There were so many opportunities for the accident not to happen—the collision between a Legacy 600 private jet and a Boeing 737 carrying 154 people. But on September 29, 2006, high above the Amazon, a long, thin thread of acts and omissions brought the two airplanes together. The author reconstructs a fatal intersection between high-performance technology and human fallibility."

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