Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Transportation Safety Board attributed a fatal 1983 air accident to illegal drug abuse. Two crewmen died when a cargo flight crash- landed at Newark airport. Autopsies showed that the pilot had been smoking marijuana, possibly while flying. In an incident last March, a New York-based air-traffic controller who had been injecting three grams of cocaine daily at work put a DC-10 jumbo jet on a collision course with a private plane. At the last moment, the smaller aircraft made an emergency landing...
Indian and Canadian authorities probing last June's crash of Air India Flight 182 into the North Atlantic off the coast of Ireland have proceeded with glacial deliberation. India has never officially confirmed what many have suspected all along: that the third-worst aviation accident in history, which took the lives of all 307 passengers and 22 crew members, was the result of a bomb planted in the aircraft's luggage compartment. In spite of their tight- lipped treatment of the case, investigators know much more than they are letting on. Or at least so says Canadian Journalist Salim Jiwa...
Jiwa contends that those responsible for the crash are a cabal of Vancouver- based Sikh extremists. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, says Jiwa, have identified at least a dozen people responsible for the explosion and are only tying up loose ends before moving...
...West German mark. It dipped last week below 180 yen for the first time since October 1978, when the American currency seemed so feeble that President Carter announced a dramatic rescue plan. Economists now wonder whether the current decline will end in a soft landing or a painful crash. Says Alan Greenspan, a New York City economic consultant: "There is an increasing danger now that the dollar's fall may prove to be as big a problem to the U.S. as its climb...
...news, it could be said, is divided into three parts. The first, where most of the excitement lies, is the unexpected--the earthquake, the coup, the riot, the crash, the death of some prominent person. The second is the known event heading toward resolution--the forthcoming election, the fate of a bill in the legislature, the possibility of a veto--on which the paper provides progress reports...