In late November, a chartered Avro RJ85, LaMia Flight 2933, carrying a Brazilian soccer team crashed on approach to Medellín, Colombia. All but a handful of the 77 passengers and crew on the airplane were killed.
Within days, media outlets around the world were reporting that the accident airplane had run out of fuel. Recordings of radio transmissions between air traffic control and the flight crew were leaked and widely available on the internet, as was what was purported to be the flight plan for the ill-fated flight. An international criminal investigation was launched, arrests were made, public officials were suspended or fired, and family, friends and fans of the soccer team were left to grieve their losses.
Nearly three years earlier, in March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board. On Jan. 17, the underwater search for the wreckage of the missing Boeing 777 was suspended. “D…
