In the last week of December 2022, Southwest Airlines cancelled nearly 17,000 flights and left more than two million passengers stranded across the United States. A powerful winter storm started the crisis, but a major failure in the airline’s crew scheduling software quickly turned a bad weather event into a record-breaking disaster.
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On the morning of 6 November 2022, a Precision Air ATR 42 turboprop aircraft crashed into Lake Victoria while on approach to Bukoba Airport in northwest Tanzania, killing nineteen of the forty-three people on board. It was the deadliest commercial aviation accident in East Africa in several years, and it prompted a detailed safety investigation that identified serious failures in how the crew handled a deteriorating situation.
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