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Here's how airplane crash investigations work, according to an aviation safety expert

  • Written by Daniel Kwasi Adjekum, Assistant Professor of Aviation, University of North Dakota

The fatal crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 has resulted in the worldwide grounding of Boeing 737 Max aircraft. Investigators are probing the crash and another like it that occurred less than five months earlier in Indonesia.

As an experienced airline pilot, aircraft accident investigator and professor of aviation, I know that such major...

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