Word: crashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thundered down the runway, all grace and raw power, until it cartwheeled into the woods in a huge explosion. The lone U.S. Air Force pilot perished instantly in the crash at Germany's Spangdahlem air base last year. Another victim, far from the fireball that day, was also consumed--in a different way. He suffered much longer...
...Force really wanted someone to blame for Lowry's crash, it could have gone back and figured out why no one had done anything following the earlier, identical mistakes. "Cross-connecting the rods is an easy mistake to make," an Air Force report warned after the 1986 foul-up. "We ought to fix it so they can't be connected wrong," a second said. The Air Force ignored that recommendation and even failed to warn its mechanics of the danger...
When reporters pointed that out to him, Salinger seemed startled but was undeterred. Last week he claimed that on the evening of the crash an Air France pilot flying in the same area had made an abrupt in-flight maneuver, then announced that someone was firing missiles in the area. Salinger says his source was a passenger on the flight. FBI agents who interviewed Salinger soon after say he did not furnish the name of the passenger or the flight number. Federal investigators claim they interviewed the crews of all known flights in the area that night...
...account and that the plane wreckage recovered so far shows no signs of a missile blast. Salinger has also made much of a photograph, published in France by the magazine Paris Match, which was taken on the outdoor deck of a Long Island restaurant on the evening of the crash, which shows a bright blip in the evening sky. A missile? But reporters and federal investigators determined that the picture was taken facing north, away from the sea where the plane eventually fell. Above all, the exasperated federal agents say, the friendly fire theory would require a conspiracy in which...
...waters off the coast of Long Island, around-the-clock dredging of the crash site is just about finished. Last week boats also discovered the remains of another of the 230 dead, leaving 15 still unaccounted for. Salinger says the FBI has encouraged him to continue his investigation. If he's wrong about the missile theory, he says, it would be "the first mistake I've made since the 1930s or early 1940s." One hopes the official investigators on the case are driven by a more humble attitude...