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Why hunt for the black box? There's a simpler fix for faster crash probes
Devangshu Datta Mumbai
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In a 1968 bestseller, Airport, Arthur Hailey described operations at Chicago's O'Hare Airport ('Lincoln International Airport' in the book) during a storm. Hailey lacked imagination, and his writing style would have turned a porn film script into a gynaecological report. But precisely due to these shortcomings, his plots adhered closely to real life.
One of the subplots in Airport was that of a bankrupt businessman trying to pull off an insurance fraud combined with suicide and mass murder. After taking out life insurance with his wife as beneficiary, he carried a suitcase bomb onto a flight.
This mirrored a real
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