Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...returned, especially not wrapped in plastic, packed in ice and enclosed in a small Igloo cooler. But that is precisely the transaction that occurred last week at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, where doctors took the heart of a 22-year-old who died following a car crash and sewed it inside the body of her father...
...last, of course, and somewhere around the Wall Street Crash of 1929 the self-proclaimed "hottest child star since David loaded up his slingshot and let 'er rip" is permanently grounded. "I'll have to change your name to Mr. Vertigo," teases his saddened, sympathetic master. "Mr. Dizzy-in-the- Head. Mr. Fear-of-Heights...
...Berkley, Michigan, waited in a long line for someone to provide a heart for the transplant he desperately needed to survive. He finally won a new lease on life last week, but from a singularly tragic source. His daughter Patti, 22, was fatally injured in a car crash, long after signing an organ-donor card, thus allowing surgeons to put her compatible heart in her father's body...
...recognized aviation safety standards. The neglectful nine: Belize, the Dominican Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Zaire. In addition, airlines from Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Netherlands Antilles are on the FAA's watch list. The crackdown on foreign air carriers is a result of the 1990 crash in New York of a Columbian Avianca airliner that had run out of fuel...
...search party confirmed last night that five U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents were killed in a mysterious weekend plane crash in Peru's cocaine-producing jungle. The CASA C-212 twin-engine plane went down Saturday in the Upper Huallaga Valley, a remote area in one of only two South American regions where illegal coca leaves are grown. Peruvian air force commandos spotted the wreckage Sunday, but heavy rains and thick vegetation hampered the recovery operation for a day. A D.E.A. investigation is trying to discover whether armed drug traffickers or Shining Path guerrillas who infest the area played...