Word: crashing
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...photographers and a driver have been detained by police for questioning. Reuters reports they could be charged with endangering lives and failing to assist persons in danger for taking pictures of the crash scene instead of helping the victims...
...actually found the crash of a Federal Express plane at Newark International Airport not long ago a more persistent personal concern than the UPS strike. I tried to respond to the news on a high level--to express gratitude that nobody was seriously injured, to listen thoughtfully to interviews about whether the incident has anything to teach us about improving runway safety--but I couldn't help wondering whether that plane was carrying an important FedEx package for me. Who from? How am I supposed to know...
...inventor presented his findings to NTSB technical staffers last Friday. But the information was rejected ? even though it was backed up by Vernon Gross, a former NTSB board member who also believes the ValuJet crash was caused by an electrical fire. Werjefelt says the industry has lobbied against his recommendation to replace aging wires. "Replacing that wiring would cost airlines about as much as it would for them to buy new planes," says Werjefelt...
Your article on whether this is the the best U.S. economy ever [BUSINESS, July 28] was interesting, but history has not been kind to the view that the stock-market Crash of October 1929 ended the Roaring Twenties. The National Bureau of Economic Research, the organization that dates the business cycles for the U.S., places the beginning of the downturn in August 1929, some two months before the Crash. And in October 1987 the U.S. experienced a stock-market crash similar in magnitude to 1929's, with no immediate economic downturn. Indeed, the economy's expansion continued until July...
...crash of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Florida swamps killed 110 people, shook up the FAA and made Mary Schiavo a star. What exactly happened? The FAA will release a full report Tuesday at a public NTSB meeting...