Some aviation tragedies have a single, brutal cause.
In July 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was hit by a Russian-made anti-aircraft missile fired from rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine. All 298 passengers and crew aboard the Boeing 777 were killed.
Most plane crashes, though, result from an alignment of unforeseen failures.
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