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Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by PhantomGremlin on Thursday April 27, 2017 @10:14PM (#14216431)
As someone on pprune.org said: Announcer on local TV said it would be less damaging if United actually crashed the plane !
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Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by desdiv on Friday April 28, 2017 @05:49AM (#14218107)
Black Mirror episode:

PR disaster happens at 40,000 feet and gets recorded by smartphones. Since they're still in the air the footage hasn't been uploaded to the internet yet.

The on-board AI supercomputer makes the determination that the negativity of a plane crash would be less than if the footage leaks out so it decides to crash itself in order to maximize profits.

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