Word: crashing
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...undone. But when nothing is normal, the rules of everyday life do not apply. No one knows more about human behavior in disasters than researchers in the aviation industry. Because they have to comply with so many regulations, they run thousands of people through experiments and interview scores of crash survivors. Of course, a burning plane is not the same as a flaming skyscraper or a sinking ship. But some behaviors in all three environments turn out to be remarkably similar...
...tend to assume that plane crashes--and most other catastrophes--are binary: you live or you die, and you have very little choice in the matter. But in all serious U.S. plane accidents from 1983 to 2000, just over half the passengers lived, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. And some survived because of their individual traits or behavior--human factors, as crash investigators put it. After the Tenerife catastrophe, aviation experts focused on those factors--and people like the Hecks--and decided that they were just as important as the design of the plane itself...
...seen as a very positive one. And that's not because the Army has good spin doctors, it's because it does good things. Like those nine young service men and women who died on Nias: it's not just about remembering that they died in a helicopter crash, but remembering what they were doing when they died - helping people and doing their...
...fact, “Emergency”’s electronica was interrupted by a dissonant and jarring interlude. Militant beats reminiscent of “The Nutcracker”’s battle scene soundtrack flowed uneasily back and forth from the crash of the piece’s dominant electronica, which sounded more like high-speed traffic...
...soothing violin crescendos. Of course, just when the music became lulling, a sudden spark of energy in each dance would undoubtedly be unfurled. In “Dacey’s Memory,” this came in the form of dissonant piano notes that climaxed to a frustrated crash of chords and immediately caused a fall to silence in the soundtrack...