Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take off from the western rim of the Coliseum, soar down the field during the playing of the national anthem, and land on a perch built in the form of one of the Olympic symbols, five interlocking rings. Bomber, warming to the mission, "had a couple of crash landings," the trainer says, but it was game...
...such routine maneuver went tragically awry. Amtrak's New England Zip, heading from Washington, D.C., to Boston, rammed head-on into another Amtrak train, the Shoreliner, en route from Boston to New York City, on a trestle 80 ft. above a shopping district in Queens, N.Y. The crash left Spanish Diplomat Enrique Gilarranz dead and 125 other passengers injured. When an Amtrak train hit a pickup truck at a grade crossing in South Carolina three days later, killing one person, the number of fatal Amtrak accidents in the past month reached five...
Human error may have been responsible for the Queens crash...
Cynics say fans come just to see the crashes, but the race there last weekend indicated that as accidents go, they are pretty tame. A motocross crash has none of the explosive finality of an Indy car slamming into the wall at 200 mph. A rider loses control in a jump, hits the ground off balance, falls off his bike, picks it up and starts going again. Crashes serve much more as opportunities for passing than for broken legs. One of the most exciting parts of Saturday's action was in the second-to-last race, when leader Scott Burnsworth...
...offering low-cost flights to major East Coast cities and to Europe, the Caribbean and Central America. But price wars blasted its profits, and aggressive rivals like Delta and Pan American flew off with much of the Miami-based carrier's business. Also damaging was the 1982 crash of an Air Florida jetliner in Washington that killed 78 people. Over the past three years the airline has had $59 million in operating losses...