Hey, welcome to the lowdown newsletter, where we talk about everything that's happened in aviation and defense the past week, things I think you'll find interesting if you're into that kind of thing.

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All right. Let's jump over to the newsletter and take a look at this past week.

So last week was definitely a really rough week when it comes to aviation.

Three mishaps, three significant mishaps. They have 35 crash up in Ielson Air Force Base in Alaska.

We did a breakdown video of what we know and really what the safety investigation board and the accident investigation

board will be doing and what the process go. There's not a lot of speculation. Try to avoid the

speculation there because the investigations are going to determine what cost. That

mishap and what happened to that F-35.

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