Outlook Weekend: The Indestructibles
The mystery of a 30-year-old black box recorder and a mayor changing attitudes to HIV.
American flatmates Dan Futrell and Isaac Stoner decided to try and solve a 30-year-old mystery in Bolivia; why Eastern Airlines Flight 980 crashed into the mountainside approaching La Paz airport on New Year's Day 1985.
Livey Van Wyk became the youngest person ever to be elected mayor in Namibia at the age of 26. But just a few years earlier she had been attacked and ostracised because of her HIV positive status, by some of the very same townspeople who had now voted for her.
Image: statues in a mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia
Credit: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images
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