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TIL about the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 - a faulty altimeter caused the plane's computers to think it was about to land when it was still too high, and the plane stalled and crashed. However, the aircraft was so slow when it hit the ground that only 9 out of 135 occupants died.

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