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The crash of LaMia flight 2933 stands out among air accidents caused by negligence in the sheer boldness of the violations. Nobody really made any “mistakes”—every violation was deliberate, and everyone cut corners despite knowing the risks. It was not pilot error; the pilots knew exactly what they were doing. It more closely resembled murder. All of this stemmed from an airline that ultimately was not financially viable, but whose owners were desperate to keep it going so they could make money. Aviation analyst John Nance summed up the problem with these shoestring airlines: “When you’ve got a smaller carrier, and somebody audits it, and they find all these unpaid bills and all these financial difficulties, what you really need to do is just put them on the ground,” he said in a 2019 interview. “Because there’s almost no way they’re going to continue to operate with the level of safety that the public expects, and the reason why is that they can’t pay for it.” It is a terrible shame that the airline couldn’t even be bothered to pay for enough fuel to get its passengers to their destination alive.

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