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On Those Bad Trading Days, from David Lillienfeld

When it seems that the trading day can't finish soon enough, take heart that you weren't one of the pilots of this El Al plane trying to land without its landing gear deployed. Not a good situation—but at least caught by the automated alarms on board, averting what would have been a disastrous landing (I think the engines hang lower than the fuselage).

anonymous writes:

As the Chair has noted, the importance of checklists.