Airline Puts Pilot in Dangerous Position—and It Results in Disaster

A Horrible Tragedy

British Airways flight 548 is still one of the greatest airborne tragedies in the history of air travel. Immediately after the crash, British Airways shut down, gave all of their pre-striking employees enough pay for an entire month. They worked on developing a deep investigation into what happened. 

There are Few Answers, Outside of the Obvious

In theory, despite all of the events that had taken place on the plane prior to the crash, the plane should not have stalled. If it didn't stall, the plane would have continued to glide in the air, and the co-pilot would have attempted to land it at the nearest airport. Something was fishy about the whole thing, and British Airways wanted to get to the bottom of the mystery ASAP...