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TIL in 1987, a former airline worker shot his boss mid-flight, causing the stewardess to tell the pilot “We have a problem!”. The pilot asked “What kind of problem?” and at that moment, the man shot the stewardess dead & announced “I’m the problem” before murdering the pilots and crashing the plane

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