Last Year's West Crash Caused By High Altitude, Experts Concur

The August 2005 crash of an MD-82 belonging to Caribbean Airlines over northwestern Venezuela (DAILY, Aug. 17, 2005) happened because the aircraft exceeded its operational altitude and speed and failed to remain airborne, concluded a multi-national group of technical experts investigating the...

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