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  1. Photo: Sebastien Mortier / CC BY-SA 2.0

    Germanwings Flight 9525

    The A320 flown into the French Alps

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    On 24 March 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320 flying from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, descended from its cruising height and flew into a mountainside in the French Alps after the co-pilot locked the captain out of the cockpit. The French investigators, the BEA, found that he did it deliberately, and all 150 people on board were killed.

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  2. Photo: Kambui / CC BY 2.0

    Pan Am Flight 103

    The Lockerbie bombing

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    Pan Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747 flying from London Heathrow to New York, was destroyed by a bomb in its forward cargo hold over Lockerbie, Scotland, on 21 December 1988. All 259 people on board and 11 residents of Lockerbie were killed, and a Libyan intelligence officer was later convicted of their murder.

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