Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the 1970s, DC-10s were involved in two major crashes in which the hydraulic lines were implicated. The world's worst single-plane accident occurred in 1974, when a Turkish Airlines DC-10 lost an improperly secured cargo door as the plane left Paris. The resulting pressure change buckled the cabin floor and broke the hydraulic tubes passing under it. All 346 occupants died. In a 1979 crash in Chicago, 279 were killed after an improperly installed wing engine on an American Airlines DC-10 tore away on takeoff, - ripping hydraulic lines and causing the pilot to lose control...
...need to keep the economy afloat. As a result, interest rates on three-month Treasury bills have fallen from a high of 9.4% in late March to 7.9% last week. The clarity of the Fed's purpose has sent Wall Street on a bullish stampede to post-October 1987-crash highs. Last week the Dow Jones average climbed 53 points, closing...
...consequence of the hiatus, there are now three times as many first- graders as usual, from those who should have completed their first year in 1988 to those just starting this year. To help unclog the system, U.N. relief workers have developed a "crash course" for Grades 1 through 6 that crams a full 32-week school year into 20 weeks or less in order to advance as many children as quickly as possible...
NATION: A heroic captain guides his crippled DC-10 to a crash landing in an Iowa cornfield. Miraculously, 186 survive...
Fate and circumstance combine to limit the death toll in what is nevertheless the tenth worst air crash in U.S. history. -- On the diplomatic front: a senior U.S. foreign service officer is suspected of espionage, and George Bush is accused of giving embassy jobs to wealthy but unqualified supporters. -- The Stealth bomber takes to the skies -- but Congress may shoot it down...