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remembering PG's "lisp would have stopped 9/11" essay from September 2001(paulgraham.com)

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sorter_plainview@lemmy.today
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Did you mean the Germanwings crash from 2015? or is it a different incident?

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That’s the one, thank you.

German pilot, and crash in France, not French pilot. Second pilot locking out the captain, not the other way around. Otherwise my memory seem to have served.

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