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Title text: Their crash investigation team had some particularly harsh words for Dave Matthews.


Transcript[Map of San Fernando Valley, California, with dotted line labeled “flight path” and several other features marked on and around the line:]

  • Tom Petty home [in Reseda]
  • vampires [on Ventura Boulevard, with an arrow pointing west]
  • boys (bad) [mountains south west of Reseda]
  • girls (good) (sad) [plains north east of Reseda]
  • glide phase [arrow pointing towards flight path, over Mulholland Drive, south east of Reseda]
  • skywriting incident [near Van Nuys, east of Reseda, loops in flight path]
  • ? [at end of flight path, near Burbank, east of Reseda]

[In the top left of the map, the logo of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)]

[Caption below the panel:] Due to an obscure law, if you download a song onto a flight data recorder and send it to the NTSB, they have to do a report on it.


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