Word: crash
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Neither man would give in, so the crowd roared for the fighters to smash each other again: more kicks, punches, stomps, knees and elbows. They obliged. When they got too tired to fight, they would grab each other and crash to the mat of the octagonal ring, grappling, twisting like strange action figures, pressing against the cage's netting. Then they would be back on their feet, catching a breath, calculating advantage, their faces streaked with sweat and gore. Both were bleeders. Weeks before, in a qualifying bout, Forrest Griffin, 26, had suffered a gash above an eye that required...
...autumns ago, the TV networks presciently, weirdly, scheduled three terrorism dramas just before 9/11. This fall, just after Hurricane Katrina, the lineup includes three sci-fi series about menaces from the water. Is it conspiracy? Clairvoyance? No, just TV: blame the success of ABC's Lost, in which plane-crash survivors battle eerie phenomena and seaborne attackers on an island...
...still safe, and make no mistake, they are. The numbers show that, currently, my chances of dying on the next flight are about eight million to one, much lower than when I’m driving to the grocery store. Then again, the mortality rate of a plane crash, if one should be so unlucky, is pretty darn high—commercial airliners don’t get away with many fender-benders—and the state of the airline industry is reaching new lows. These facts taken together are rather disconcerting. With increasing competition from smaller airlines, many...
...airlines need to take a step back and size up the situation. While it’s impossible to eradicate all risk, every possible step must be taken to minimize it, even at higher costs. Excepting the Peru crash that was the result of inclement weather, the other three major accidents are thought to have technical causes. The Greek jet, it is said, suffered a sudden loss in cabin pressure that could have resulted from failures in the air conditioning system. The Venezuelan twin-engine failure could have been either because of fuel contamination or maintenance malfunction...
Here’s where the airlines can take their next steps: increase safety precautions; up maintenance rigor, tighten inspection standards, and, most importantly, don’t go breaking any more crash statistic records. After all, it’s not enough just to assert that planes are safe—these crashes are affecting nerves more than anything else. Consumer confidence is a powerful thing, and it must be bolstered, or the airline industry itself could be in for a crash...