Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a blinding flash and a sickening crash Trip 4 plowed into the rolling hillside, hard on the bank of an erosion gully. It bounced across the gully and up the hill like a tortured metal monster, strewing splintered wreckage, broken bodies, burst baggage and clothing more than 300 feet. Flames sprouted, spurted high, clearly visible in Salt Lake City's darkened business section, a few miles south...
Preliminary investigation uncovered no hint as to cause of the crash. The meager facts: The plane was in no apparent mechanical difficulty. Although the rain gave way to sleet and snow within a half-hour, neither Pilot Brown nor pilots who came in before & after had reported icing difficulty. Wind was northwesterly, velocity 20 m.p.h. The Salt Lake City radio range, whose faulty operation misled another mainliner into a Wasatch ridge in November 1940, was working normally. Had Don Brown been 300 feet higher, he would have cleared the knob...
...rugged, deceptive high-low Wasatch mountain range Trip 4 was the fifth commercial airliner to crash since 1934 for a total of 61 lives. For United Air Lines, holder of the National Safety Council's 1941 safety certificate, it marked the end of 17 months, and 409,000,000 revenue passenger miles, without fatality to passenger or crew...
Turning the little knobs on her gun predictor for the first time in real action, 18-year-old Private Nora Caveney matched up the pointers, cried: "On target." As the guns spat, came the high whine of German bombs, a crash. A hot, jagged bomb splinter ripped through the sandbags and struck Nora Caveney in the chest. Another girl jumped into her place; another treble cry went up: "On target...
...flying is no picnic. Members train hard. Of 230 curricular hours, 80 go into military discipline and drill, 150 into meteorology, navigation, crash procedure, flight missions. Men on active duty get only plane-operation expenses and sustenance, little or no compensation if they damage their ships. But they are stubborn; they want to fly and they...