Word: crashing
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...plane to the limits of its capability and see what it can do. That is what one of the prototypes of the sleek plane was attempting over the Mojave Desert near Edwards Air Force Base in California last week when it plunged to the ground in a fiery crash. It was the first serious accident in 418 test flights of B-1 prototypes since...
Investigators say it will take a month to determine the cause of the crash. The plane was flying slowly at 3,000 ft. Officials say it may have banked sharply to avoid a military observation plane that was filming part of the test flight...
...habit. And as millions of informaniacs from the Hamptons to the White House West were testing their trivia wits this summer, the three Canadians (two former journalists and a retired hockey goaltender) who dreamed up the game in 1979 were secreted in a motel on the outskirts of Toronto, crash-coursing the last 2,000 or so questions for the Genus II U.S. edition of Trivial Pursuit, due out next January. Scott Abbott and the brothers Chris and John Haney, multimillionaires and still in their mid-30s, could afford plusher accommodations, but, as Chris notes, "nobody bugs us, the phone...
...extremely hard, her bones occasionally came out of their sockets. A major reconstruction job on her shins kept her from Montreal in 1976. A war in Afghanistan stopped her in 1980. "Obviously, myself and the Olympics don't have a very good relationship," she said after the crash last Friday night...
Behind them there was a crash. A shoe had fallen from between the cracks of the temporary stands high above...