Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: There's but one conclusion to be drawn so far from the known facts about the crash of Swissair flight 111, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 that went down Wednesday night with 229 passengers and crew: There were no survivors. Among the dead were 137 Americans. Beyond that, details get sketchy: The pilot reported smoke in the cockpit less than an hour after taking off from JFK; the plane dumped fuel over Novia Scotia and seemed to be preparing for an emergency landing at Halifax airport; it plunged into the ocean shortly after 9:30 p.m. EDT. Swissair quickly...
Flags were flown at half-staff at Buckingham Palace in London and on public buildings across the land. In Paris, near the mouth of the traffic tunnel where Diana died in a car crash, crowds gathered to pay their respects...
...crash is part of popular legend now. The 13th pillar in the Alma tunnel has become a place of morbid pilgrimage: a way station in the re-enactment of Diana's life and death. But a thousand imponderables lie behind the tragic tale of that car accident on Aug. 31, 1997, that also killed her lover Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. French authorities still have no clear answers to many vexing questions. They say they have definitively ruled out the possibility of a conspiracy, and now consider the crash an accident owing mainly to drunk driving, excessive speed...
...front air bags, which probably saved bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones' life, may also have provoked the final crash. According to the report of a trauma expert at La Pitie-Salpetriere hospital, the nature of Rees-Jones' facial injuries suggests that the air bags may have inflated with explosive force before the Mercedes struck the 13th pillar. That raises the possibility that the initial brush with another car, the mysterious Fiat Uno, may have triggered the deployment of the air bags, stunning and blinding Paul at a critical moment. At the request of Rees-Jones' French attorney, investigating Judge Herve Stephan...
...street level, the crash hasn't yet happened. The attitude is, "Oh, just another crisis." They haven't yet had the big layoffs -- Wile E. Coyote's legs are still spinning in the air. In the upper echelons, people feel that things are in free fall and no one is in charge. One of the guys at dinner compared the situation to California in the early '90s, when they shut down the defense industry. But I wouldn't push that analogy too far -- California had a happy ending...