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Deadly Comparison
Consider the parallels between the Feb 16 2000 crash of an Emery Worldwide Airlines DC-8 freighter and the Jan. 8 crash of an Air Midwest twinturboprop:
* Loading/weight and balance questions.
* Third party maintenance repair work.
* Suspected catastrophic malfunction of horizontal stabilizer.
* Possible pre-accident data recorder indicators showing the crash airplane's elevators mov in ways "inconsistent" with what might be expected
* Aircraft bring to noughted in fireball and reduced to ashes shortly after takeoff.
* No survivors.
Emery Flight 17 Air Midwest Flight 5481: dja vu
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