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TIL of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash, where the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane into a mountainside after locking the captain out of the cockpit. The co-pilot had hidden the fact his doctor had been treating him for suicidal tendencies and declared him "unfit to work". 150 people died.

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