Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today there are still complaints about the quality of its justice, but most of them are of a totally different kind. And they come from the opposite side of the color line. It took a crash program begun in 1969 and as many as 40 visiting judges to cut the backlog down to manageable proportions. Now the number of permanent judges has been increased to 20. And eight of them, including one woman, are black...
...directing flight crews on all McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 jumbo jets to make certain that the cargo holds of their planes are locked and properly sealed before they take off. Behind those words may well be the solution to the mystery of the worst air disaster in history: the crash near Paris on March 3 of a Turkish Airlines DC-10, in which at least 344 passengers and crew members lost their lives...
...ground were routine throughout the brief eleven-minute flight. The first and only hint of trouble came when a radar operator at Orly saw streaks around the DC-10's blip at 13,000 ft. Moments later the aircraft disappeared from the screen; from the location of the crash, it appears that the pilot, Captain Nejat Berkoz, 44, was attempting to land at Charles de Gaulle airport at Roissy, Europe's newest and largest, which goes into operation this week. He missed by several miles, crashing in the peaceful forest of Ermenonville, a game refuge in the gentle...
...Export, was tossed overboard and lost when his safety harness snapped during a squall. Then came the terrifying moment when heavy seas rolled the Mexican ketch Sayula II so far her masts were deep under water. "There was no warning," recalls Crewman Keith Lorence. "Suddenly there was a big crash and the lights went out. She righted herself in seconds, but she must have rolled at least 160 degrees." Half of the twelve-member crew was injured...
...says, afraid of "annihilation, of being surrounded by what is hostile, of loss and of being lost." The test that he devised for himself was formidable. Equipped with little more than a knife, a badly calibrated sextant and a crash course in Arabic, he planned to cross from the Atlantic to the Nile, a journey of 3,600 miles that had never been completed by a traveler alone...