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On October 7, 2008, Qantas Flight 72 was traveling from Singapore to Perth when it suffered a terrifying mechanical failure. While cruising at 37,000 feet near Exmouth, Western Australia, one of the aircraft's three air data inertial reference units began sending corrupted data to the flight control computer. The system reacted as if the plane was stalling and executed two uncommanded, violent nose-down maneuvers. The horror inside the cabin was instantaneous. Passengers and crew who were not bu