Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crash reportedly occurred around 1:30 a.m. yesterday morning...
Three Leverett House students were critically injured and hospitalized after a car crash near Natick, Mass. early yesterday morning...
...Israeli city, ordered up Phantom F-4E interceptors. When the French pilot of the jet seemed to ignore warning shots signaling him to land at a nearby military base, the Israeli pilots shot the Boeing down, killing 108 of the 116 passengers aboard. Tapes of cockpit conversations from the crash later revealed that the pilot had mistaken the Israeli interceptors for a friendly Egyptian fighter escort. Chastened, the Israeli government issued an apology and paid more than $3 million in compensation...
...black rule to Zimbabwe was nothing but coldblooded. In 1978, foot soldiers of Joshua Nkomo's Patriotic Front Army fired Soviet SA-7 missiles at a Viscount airliner as it flew from Salisbury to Kariba, 175 miles to the northwest. Of the 56 aboard, 38 died in the crash. Then, after injured passengers crawled from the wreckage, the guerrillas arrived and again opened fire, killing ten of the survivors...
...supposed to be reverently lowered into an open grave. What actually happened remained unexplained to the millions of Soviet citizens watching the televised interment. The coffin proved too heavy for the two funeral attendants who were holding it, and it tumbled into its last resting place with a loud crash...