Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles there in four other 500s. But experience could not save him. He suffered a fractured skull, died in flaming wreckage. The first lap was not yet finished and the 42nd Indy 500 had scored the race's 48th fatality. Elisian, whose harebrained driving had touched off the crash, drew a belated suspension from all races sanctioned by the U.S. Auto Club...
Yellow for Caution. Yellow caution lights flared all over the track. The drivers who had escaped the crash held their positions while the track was cleared. But eight cars were out of commission. When the caution lights blinked off, the front runner was a handsome, husky, 31-year-old Arizona cowboy named Jimmy Bryan...
Unprecedented Proclamation. The Maryland crash-the fifth mid-air military-airliner collision over the U.S. since mid-1949-laid on the line once again a scandalously serious problem of the U.S.'s crowded air space. In clear weather, military planes fly indiscriminately on and through civil airways under Visual Flight Rules. In areas of heavy traffic, civilian airliners, even in clear weather, more often fly under Instrument Flight Rules-continually tracked and controlled by Civil Aeronautics Administration ground stations. In the final analysis, the lack of military-civilian coordination was responsible for the Maryland crash just...
...newest crash threw official Washington into a fresh swivet of air-safety hearings and investigations. Out of it all, two days later, came an unprecedented stopgap presidential proclamation that 1) required military jet aircraft to fly by Instrument Flight Rules while in the civil airways below 25,000 ft.-later reduced to 20,000 ft., 2) prohibited jet penetration swoops from high to low altitudes through civil airways. Exception: emerency jet-bomber and fighter "scrambles," which would be continued whenever necessary for the national defense. Said the President's special assistant for aviation affairs, retired Air Force General Elwood...
...crash-priority psychology, which often achieves spectacular results, also produced absurdities. Though lavish, laboratory equipment is apt to be overengineered, clumsy and wasteful. Says a British physicist of one laboratory: "The men in charge just sat down with a catalogue and ordered whatever they wanted. There was one fine electron-microscope that they said they hadn't gotten around to using yet, though it had been there a year...