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The Tragic Crash of Crossair Flight 3597
On the evening of November 24, 2001, a Crossair ORJ-100 aircraft carrying 33 passengers began its descent towards Zurich International Airport, Switzerland, after departing from Berlin, Germany. The flight was piloted by Captain Hans Ulrich Lutz, a veteran with nearly 20,000 flight hours under his belt, alongside a notably inexperienced first officer, Stefan Lauer, just 25 years old with under 500 hours of flying experience. What unfolded in the next thirty minutes would reveal not only critical errors in the cockpit but also decades of systemic negligence that ultimately led to disaster.