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The families said this amounted to a design "defect" that "allowed for inadvertent cutoff of fuel supply and total loss of thrust necessary to propel" the plane.

From BBC

Sweeney’s impeccable screenplay accounts for these seemingly inadvertent details to later bloom into meaningful narrative payoffs.

And as Golden also acknowledges, “…at a certain point in sonic history annals, the absence of The Raincoats’ story signals more than just inadvertent omission.”

From Salon

"This has been a difficult decision," he wrote but added: "I have concluded on balance that your failure was inadvertent, although greater attention to the rules could and should have avoided it."

From BBC

He said any repeat requests would have been inadvertent and claimed that while Yusuf had retained access to his accounts during this time, he did not use them.

From BBC

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