Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boeing 720 touched the ground hurtling on its belly at 170 m.p.h. Screeching along out of control, it rammed stanchions along the runway. Its left wing was ripped from the fuselage. Soon the plane was engulfed by an enormous fireball-and then a second fire. Not far from the crash zone, a crowd of witnesses, including Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole, calmly watched the whole explosive episode...
Nobody had been aboard, of course; the doomed jet was piloted by remote control for its final, 9½-minute flight last Saturday, and the crash was an elaborately designed, $11.8 million "controlled impact demonstration" that the Federal Aviation Administration and NASA had been planning since...
...that the crash was a total failure. The FAA's overall purpose had been to monitor with sensors and cameras exactly what happens when a big passenger jet crashes. The Government was also trying out equipment that could make crashes more survivable, including rearward-facing seats and fire-resistant windows...
Strapped in the passenger seats were 72 dummies, including an infant-size one. Thirteen of the dummy passengers were fitted with sensors on the forehead, upper chest and pelvis to chart the effect of G forces on the bodies of crash victims...
...director Jeffrey Rossman's production of The Merchant of Venice, which resembles the Bard's in script alone. Although the program informs us that "the action of the play occurs in the late 1920s" both before and after the stock market crash, the play incorporates such a hodgepodge of artifacts from different decades that it leaves us in no particular location at no particular point in time...