Word: crash
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...flight rules (VFR) and thus were responsible for keeping a safe distance from other aircraft. A PATCO official claimed that a San Jose controller had not informed the pilots of each other's positions, but a preliminary NTSB report absolved the control tower of any responsibility for the crash...
...youngest Berry and almost too painful to mention. He plunges into the Atlantic with his mother and Sorrow, the stuffed remains of the family's old, flatulent Labrador retriever. It is the first object that pops to the surface after the crash. Hence another refrain, "Sorrow floats," repeated throughout the book...
...Dugway, reporters outfitted with gas masks awaited the transports. An official coolly advised them: "If the plane should crash on landing, head for the bus." At 7:46 the first Starlifter landed, followed 54 minutes later by the second one. A crew member lit up a cigar in celebration. Said Public Affairs Officer Colonel Richard Horvath, who arrived on the first flight: "We had a good time up there." But with the flights stretching into next week, many Utah residents were not lighting up quite...
...Angeles Publicist Philip Paladino, 45, paid $73,000 eight years ago for a house in Bel Air. Last month he told his wife: "Let's dump it. I think the market is going to crash...
DIED. Omar Torrijos Herrera, 52, cigar-chewing brigadier general of Panama's National Guard and the country's de facto strongman, who negotiated the return by the U.S. of the Panama Canal Zone to his country's control; in an airplane crash; in the western jungles of Panama. Torrijos joined the National Guard in 1952, and in 1968 helped to lead a coup against President Arnulfo Arias. The next year Torrijos effectively took sole power and served an official term as chief of government from 1972 to 1978. Occasionally ironfisted with local dissenters, he showed his formidable...