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This is a frightening incident that had a very sad sequel. Here a King Air jump plane gets too slow on the run in and stalls into an incipient spin. The jumpers struggle to get out the door and some of them already on the fuselage are thrown off. This is in 2016. Three years later this aircraft was destroyed in a fatal crash after it stalled on take-off full of skydivers. According to the NTSB, the left wing was twisted in this incident and the maintenance team failed to detect it, significantly altering the aircraft's stall characteristics. There are so many lessons here.

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