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Topic: Plane Crashes

Boeing 737 Max airplanes sit parked at the company's production facility on November 18, 2020 in Renton, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

Deregulation and planes don't mix

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Boeing has a big problem

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Here are your odds of dying

Joanna Rothkopf

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How to survive a plane crash

Joanna Rothkopf

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Why the Alpine crash haunts us

Investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board look over one of the burned jet engines of a United Airlines DC-10 that crashed while trying to make an emergency landing on July 19, wreckage shown July 22, 1989. There are 109 confirmed deaths in the tragedy. (AP Photo/Sioux City Journal Pool/Ed Porter) (Ed Porter)

What a plane crash feels like

Laurence Gonzales

(AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Terry Collins, Joan Lowly

The reconstructed section of TWA flight 800. (Reuters)

Original cyber-truthers return

Alex Seitz-Wald

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New York's Belle Harbor neighborhood, after the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 on Nov. 12, 2001. (AP/New York Police Department)

A remotely piloted jetliner in the near future?

Rescue workers inspect a Caribbean Airlines jet after it skidded off the runway at Cheddi Jagan International airport outside Georgetown July 30, 2011. The packed Boeing 737-800 jet carrying 163 people crashed and broke in two on Saturday as it landed in Guyana at night, injuring dozens of passengers but killing no one. REUTERS/Alvo Salomon (GUYANA - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT) BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE (Â© Str New / Reuters)

What you can learn from "Transformers": It could always be worse.

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One of the two flight recorders of Air France Flight 447, which crashed in 2009, is displayed to reporters in Le Bourget, near Paris, May 12, 2011.

**FILE**Jan Paladino, left, and Joseph Lepore, both U.S. pilots who were detained in Brazil for more than two months following a midair collision that killed 154 people, are greeted by friends and family upon returning to Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, N.Y, in this Dec. 9, 2006 file photo. Paladino and Lepore, indicted in June, 2007, by a Brazilian judge, are willing to testify in the case, but will not return next week to Brazil to do so, their American lawyer said Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, File) (Ed Betz)

FILE - In this Monday, June 8, 2009 file photo released by Brazil's Air Force, Brazil's Navy sailors recover debris from the missing Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean. A year after Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic ocean, families of some of the 228 victims are demanding Monday May 31, 2010 that the search for the flight recorders, and for answers, continues. (AP Photo/Brazil's Air Force, file) ** NO SALES ** (Anonymous)

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United Airlines Flight 811 after a mid-flight cargo door failure on February 24, 1989.

Pilot makes emergency landing on S.C. highway

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Mary Elizabeth Williams

Fabiola Sanchez

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