Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firemen to make entry safe. Lamented Volunteer Fireman Bob Bennett: "We train and train to help save lives. Then it happens, and we can't do anything but take the dead out." But Deputy Sheriff Gerald Hibbs saw something move in the rubble two hours after the crash. "Get a doctor!" he shouted. A baby started to cry. "What a sound it was," recalled Bennett. Wearing only diapers, 16-month-old Melissa Trahan was rushed to a hospital, suffering foot burns. "Just one ray of life in all this," said a policeman. "One tiny little baby...
Unofficially, the death toll had reached 153. It was the second worst U.S. air accident, exceeded only by the crash of an American Airlines DC-10 in Chicago three years ago, which killed 274. The search for the cause of the New Orleans disaster centered on the weather. Lightning, wind shear and "downburst," a phenomenon in which a huge column of air suddenly surges toward earth from thunderclouds at high velocity, were the prime suspects. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Sam Allis and B.J. Phillips/New Orleans
...carrying Deputy Defense Minister Colonel Francisco Adolfo Castillo, 45, and the military commander of Morazan department, Colonel Salvador Beltran Luna, 45. The two officers were flying over rebel-held territory on a reconnaissance mission when their craft was struck by automatic-weapons fire. Beltran Luna was killed in the crash, but Castillo survived and was taken prisoner by the guerrillas. Several days later, Castillo was interviewed during a broadcast on the rebels' clandestine radio station, Radio Venceremos. He assured his family that he had recovered from injuries incurred in the crash and was being treated well. But Castillo frustrated...
Patrick says he got down off the platform, let the guy have a look, and went to crash at a nearby commune of militant lesbians who kept a stash of rifles in their attic...
...White Sox, confides the alternate Veeck: a newspaperman. In a "nonfiction short story," Truman Capote wrote that he wanted to be a girl. Andy Warhol confesses without hesitation: "I've always wanted to be an airplane. Nothing more, nothing less. Even when I found out that they could crash, I still wanted to be an airplane...