Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that horseface") to Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign ("It's scary that someone like that could get as far as he did") to the power of the news media ("They're such vultures . . . they're too powerful") and the dating habits of flight attendants ("In case we crash, so the media would have some kind of a juicy tidbit"). Moments later, the plane crashed, killing 14 people. The crew had apparently failed to extend the aircraft's wing flaps properly...
...department statement said the area experienced its worst rainstorm in the last 50 years just before the crash. It said two inches of rain in six hours caused a dam to overflow, and the resulting torrent washed out supports for the bridge, which collapsed under the train's weight...
Hundreds of workers from nearby towns showed up to help, said officials in Guasave, near the crash site 730 miles northwest of Mexico City...
Javier Lopez, the Red Cross duty officer in Los Mochis, 60 miles northeast of the crash site, said most of those on the train had apparently been sleeping and that most of the victims drowned...
Charlie Cormay of Sudbury said, "When they first said they had problems, everybody was just kind of joking about it. Once we realized there was going to be a crash landing, everybody got pretty solemn...