Airline Puts Pilot in Dangerous Position—and It Results in Disaster

The Chief of the Operation

The captain, Stanley Key, was the one whose voice was the loudest. He was a former Royal Air Force pilot who flew for the British army in WWII. He was a decorated veteran, and he never had a single mark against him while flying in the commercial airline industry following the war. But today, he was acting strangely...

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