Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PAULO, Brazil: A Brazilian domestic jetliner crashed shortly after takeoff today, killing at least 95, Brazil's Globo TV network reported. The plane, a Fokker-100 belonging to TAM regional airlines, took off at 5:45 EST this morning and, according to Globo, dipped right sharply, struck an apartment building and eight houses and burst into flames. As live TV coverage showed a row of bodies covered with black plastic on the sidewalk and firemen sprayed smoking bits of the airplane with hoses, the search for casualties amid the rubble on the ground continued. The crash occurred about one mile...
Memorial services for Michel Breistroff '94-'95 will be held today at 9:30 a.m. in Memorial Church. Breistroff, a former Mather resident, died in the TWA Flight 800 crash this summer...
...LOUIS, MO: Surprising industry insiders, Trans World Airlines chief executive and president Jeffrey Erickson announced his resignation late Thursday, on the day the airline posted a $14.3 million quarterly loss linked to the July crash of TWA flight 800. The tragedy reversed the remarkable financial turnaround that was underway at the long-floundering company, which posted a 400-fold gain in its second-quarter earnings on July 17, the day of the crash. Erickson, 51, said he would step down in January. As investigators increasingly focus on possible mechanical failure as a leading theory for the crash, amid speculation, accurate...
George Michail, a sixth-year graduate student in the Physics Department, died three weeks ago in Chicago from injuries sustained in a head-on car crash with a drunk driver two weeks earlier...
...theory about the crash of TWA's Flight 800 [NATION, Sept. 30] has been circulating claiming that a missile from a U.S. Navy warship on maneuvers may have downed the aircraft. Although this rumor has been vehemently denied by the Navy and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, what a sorry state of affairs it would be if this proved to be true. It would be one of the biggest and worst cover-ups in U.S. history. VICKI DUCANOIS St. Avertin, France...