Word: crashing
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Even relatively small and local events evoked or involved heightened group responses. A heave of national paranoia resurfaced on the 50th anniversary of the Roswell, N.M., flying-saucer incident. So certain were an astounding number of Americans that a saucer did indeed crash in the desert near Roswell in 1947 that the Army Air Force command in Fort Worth, Texas, issued an explanation at the time that the vehicle in question had been a weather balloon. This past June, to keep the public calm, the Army published reassuring photos in the papers...
Reality bites. Where was the cosmic fairness in this year's murder of Bill Cosby's son Ennis, a beloved young teacher? Did the June settlement by the states with the cigarette companies hit the bastards hard enough? What was happening in the never ending investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800? Where is the justice for the killer(s) of JonBenet Ramsey, whose case seems to stew forever? Where is the justice for Pol Pot, the most odious mass murderer since Hitler and Stalin, who was brought into public view on videotape in a Khmer Rouge show trial...
...expected to be the reactions of some 100 relatives of victims, invited as observers. Indeed, after bravely perusing transcripts from the plane's cockpit voice recorder (the captain at one point noted the plane was climbing especially fast, like a "homesick angel") and toughing out excruciatingly detailed computer-generated crash simulations and a slide marked "Chart 4.7--Body Fragmentation," several dozen relatives marched from the hall to protest the unapologetic testimony of medical examiner Dr. Charles Wetli, whose work they still think was slow and insensitive...
...neglected science of fuel-tank security. "I think I reflect to some degree the concern the American traveling public has in this issue," he said in a deceptively soft drawl. "In this country, we look to the FAA for regulations on safety." Incensed that in the months since the crash, industry inspectors have checked the fuel-tank safety of only 52 of the 970 Boeing 747s in operation, Hall asked Boeing officials whether the 52 included Air Force One. Receiving the predictable affirmative answer, he harrumphed, "Every airline passenger has as much right to safety as the President...
...That, a departure, was clearly needed. A swerving before the crash. Too late. Man, that guy was funny...