On June 10, 1990, something happened on British Airways Flight 5390 that thousands of people fear every single day. The plane began to fall out of the sky because the windshield had become dislodged from the plane. The captain was nearly sucked out of the plane. Prior to the flight, the maintenance team at the […]
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