MIurphy's Law-anything that can go wrong, will-appeared to rule on the night of Sept. 3,2014, when a Jet2 Boeing 737-300 was descending into the East Midlands Airport in England after a flight from Ibiza, Spain. The aircraft, with 152 passengers and five crewmembers, experienced a chain of events-electrical problems, communications failures, smoke in the cabin, unease about the landing gear and a disabled evacuation slide-that were initiated by the lack of a formal checklist for the electrical problem and perpetuated by a series of otherwise innocuous failures that, together, created an incident that could have turned tragic, but did not.
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