Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walls as it went. It would go all the way one way and you'd think it was going over and you'd be dead. Then the next time it would sway all the way the other way and you'd think this time it would crash. Finally it righted itself, and we all ran out on the street." There Connolly saw "people without clothes, wrapped in towels, and crying. It was a horrible experience...
...civilianaviation death toll of more than 1,500 this year; the worst previous year was 1974, when 1,299 perished. The McDonnell Douglas jet was equipped with Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7 engines, an older model of the engine that apparently caught fire and caused a British Boeing 737 to crash in August. A Pratt & Whitney spokesman said initial information about the Midwest crash provided "no reason to believe it was an engine problem...
...airline industry could face large insurance-premium increases as the result of this year's string of fatal accidents. The crash of a Japan Air Lines 747 is expected to cost the carrier and its insurance company as much as $200 million in compensation to victims' families. Last week Delta Air Lines, facing heavy costs from its L-1011 crash in Dallas, asked a U.S. District Court to require the Federal Government to share responsibility. The carrier contends that federal air-traffic controllers were at fault in the crash because they failed to warn the pilot sufficiently of bad weather...
BORN. To Barbara Mandrell, 36, perky country-pop singer, and Husband Ken Dudney, 44, her manager: their third child, second son; in Nashville. Name: Nathaniel. Weight: 7 lbs. 7 oz. She has still not fully recovered from serious injuries she sustained in an auto crash a year...
...reached the point where only in the case of an accident--a plane crash, a bridge collapse or something equally unexpected--can a reader be reasonably sure that the facts haven't been bent or tampered with in advance...