Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Pan American Airways' Atlantic Clipper crashed at Lisbon last February, killing 24 people, one of the brightest reputations in transport aviation crashed with it. Last week the crash report of the Civil Aeronautics Board marked "official" what airmen already knew: the Atlantic's chief pilot, 50-year-old Captain R.O. D. Sullivan, was responsible for the crash...
...front of the seventh car, a journal (wheel bearing) burned out. With a tremendous lurch, the train snapped in two. In the rear cars, there were a few ghastly moments when the passengers' felt as if the train were floating through air. Then the crash...
Flames shot into the air. Bullets began zinging around the heads of the spectators on the field-"as if some berserk machine gunner were trying to strafe the world," one spectator said later. A creeping curtain of flame covered the sagebrush desert for half a mile around the wreckage. Crash cars and ambulances stood by helplessly...
...White faces stared up from the U-boat's deck. Men rushed to the conning tower and clambered in. The U-boat crash-dived. Down through the Atlantic's summer sky Pilot Thomas H. Isley's U.S. Army Liberator screamed in an eight-mile dive at a target of agitated water. From the plane's belly dropped a depth charge. The swirling sea gushed forth black blobs...
Lieut. Tom Harmon, 1940's top gridiron star, sole survivor of a plane crash in the jungles of French Guiana last April, bagged his first Zero in a raid on Hong Kong...