Did anyone survive Flight 80?

The aircraft became destabilized at flare and touchdown resulting in an unrecovered bounced landing with structural failure of the landing gear and airframe, and came to rest off the runway, inverted, and burning fiercely. The captain and first officer, the jet's only occupants, were both killed.



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