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Why did other people get involved

about the turkish airline flight 981 crashed
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Answer:because

Explanation: Turkish Airlines Flight 981 was a scheduled flight from Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport to London Heathrow Airport, with an intermediate stop at Orly Airport in Paris. On March 3, 1974, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating the flight crashed into the Ermenonville Forest, outside Paris, killing all 346 people on board 1. The crash was caused by a design flaw in the cargo door of the aircraft. The cargo doors opened outwards to maximize the working space within the cargo hold, making them vulnerable to being forced open at high altitudes under normal in-flight pressure. To prevent this, a special latching system was used that locked shut under pressure when properly closed. To ensure the latches were properly positioned, a handle on the outside of the door pressed small metal pins into the latches; if the latches were in an improper location, the pins would not align and the handle would not close. However, in this case, one of the latches was not properly secured, and as a result, it failed during flight 1. The explosive decompression that followed severed critical cables necessary to control the aircraft, leading to loss of control and ultimately crashing into the forest 1.

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