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He gambled he could land a passenger plane blind, so they shut the cockpit curtains and let him try with 94 people on board. He had bet his first officer that he could land without seeing at all. Relying only on the aircraft’s instruments, he lined up with the runway, but he was coming in far too fast. Air traffic control ordered him to abort the landing, yet he ignored them and continued. The second the wheels touched the tarmac, the plane flipped and burst into flames, killing 70 of the 94 pas