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Ascending Airplane Anxiety

Incidents rise, nerves fray, safety endures.

A British Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner passes the setting sun on approach to Newark Liberty, seen from the Empire State Building, September 6, 2023. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

August 12 marked the two-month anniversary of that terrible tragedy. An Air India Boeing 787 crashed approximately 35 seconds after takeoff with a full passenger load in Ahmedabad on its way to London Gatwick, killing more than 260 people - 241 on the plane and 19 on the ground.p

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