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On the 8th of March 2017, a chartered jet carrying the University of Michigan men’s basketball team was accelerating for takeoff at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan, when the pilots came to the horrifying realization that the plane could not become airborne. With just seconds to act and 116 lives hanging in the balance, the captain made the most important decision of his career: he aborted the takeoff, even though it was already too late to do so safely. Seconds later, the MD-83 skidded off the end of the runway, crossed a road and a ditch, and came to rest in a field. Although the plane was a write-off, everyone on board walked away from the accident — a miraculous outcome, given what had befallen their airplane. Investigators would discover that a malfunction of the elevators left the plane unable to climb, and that the design of the MD-83’s elevator control system prevented the crew from noticing until it was already too late to safely abort. The findings led to urgent changes to the way MD-80 series airplanes are inspected, which should have solved the problem for good — only for the NTSB to find itself, four years later, at the scene of the crash of another MD-83, staring down another jammed elevator, and wondering: how could it have happened again?