Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never want to hit the panic button," Millar said. "We just have to bear down fire the puck on the net and crash...
After the crash, the 52nd was ready to prove it could punish its own. It took the extraordinary step of charging the two mechanics with criminally negligent homicide, punishable by four years in prison, a dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay and allowances. Mueller complained in a letter to his parents' Congressman, "Now we, the little guys, have...
...billed as a dry, fact-finding inquiry. But testimony from last week's National Transportation Safety Board hearings on the May 11 ValuJet crash that took 110 lives left victims' relatives in tears as they listened to a sickening account of an avoidable tragedy...
Witnesses portrayed the crash as a horrific consequence of a chain of irresponsibility shared by ValuJet, SabreTech (one of the airline's maintenance companies) and ultimately the Federal Aviation Administration. Volatile oxygen-generating canisters were incorrectly marked empty, packed in cardboard boxes that lacked hazardous-warning labels, and stowed in the cargo hold of the DC-9 without required safety caps designed to prevent discharges that could start a fire...
Experts say more improvements in vigilance are both needed and likely. "The public is being heard," observes flight-safety expert Jerome Lederer. "A sea change in attitude is coming." ValuJet resumed flying on Sept. 30 after being grounded for 15 weeks in the wake of the crash...