Word: crashing
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...crash was the worst in U.S. aviation history. The worst previous accident occurred eight months ago when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 collided with a private aircraft near the San Diego airport. That collision killed 144 people. Worldwide, the toll had been exceeded only in the collision of two jumbo Boeing 747 airliners on the ground at Tenerife in the Canary Islands in March 1977, killing 583 people, and the crash of another DC-10 near Paris in 1974, in which 346 died...
Rich Dusek, manager of a gas station about 100 yds. from the crash site, heard "a big explosion" and saw flames shoot up 400 to 500 ft. in the air. "Then we felt the concussion," he said. "About five seconds later we felt a blast of heat. It was like sitting in front of a fireplace." The first rescue units were on the scene within three minutes. One aircraft engine still was flaming, and the aircraft fuel had ignited, starting fires in several nearby house trailers. Most of the plane was smashed into small scraps of metal. Many...
...tragedy was the seventh major accident involving the DC-10, including the Paris crash, which was later attributed to the loss of a cargo door while in flight...
HEADLINE of the month: "And they were all dead." The Boston Herald-American's five-column front-page headline over a five-column picture and story on the American Airlines crash Friday in Chicago...
Charles W. Cheng of Los Angeles, an educator and civil rights activist who was involved in the movement to desegregate Boston public schools, was among those killed in Friday's crash of the American Airlines DC-10 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. He was 42 years...