• Lupus108@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    The disaster is the third deadliest aircraft incident in aviation history (after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175), and is the deadliest accident in aviation history.[1][2][3][c]

    The other two are the planes that hit the world trade center on 9/11. I always understood disaster to be describing more of an accident, but obviously it can also describe a terror attack where someone intentionally crashes an airplane, fair enough.

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      16 days ago

      Well if the attacks were only possible because of systemic shortcomings, it can be considered a disaster for sure.