Synopsis
Aircraft crash investigators agree on measures to improve survival rates-but why have the authorities failed to act on these recommendations?
- Programme: Short Circuit
- Episode: Survivors
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1993
Licence: ERA Licence required
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