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American Airlines Flight 965

Hi there! So, American Airlines Flight 965 was a plane journey that unfortunately ended in a very sad way. You know how sometimes when you go on a vacation, you fly on a big airplane to get to your destination? Well, that's what the passengers on Flight 965 were doing.

The plane was supposed to land in a city called Cali in Colombia, which is a country far away from the United States. But something went wrong as the plane was getting closer to the airport.

You know how sometimes when you're driving in a car, you need to follow the directions on a map to get to where you're going? Airplanes use a similar system, where they have a map in the cockpit, and the pilots follow the directions on the map to land safely. But for some reason, the pilots made a mistake and didn't follow the map properly.

This meant that the plane was flying too low, and it crashed into a mountain near the airport. Sadly, 159 of the passengers and crew members on the plane lost their lives in the accident.

It was a very sad event, and it taught us all that we need to be very careful when we're flying on planes so that we can stay safe.