Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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British Midland chairperson Michael Bishop said 117 passengers and eight crew were aboard. Police and the Civil Aviation Authority put the number...
...pressurized after takeoff along with the cabin, the barometer could detect this change and start the timer. If such a technique was used on Flight 103, it failed to postpone the blast until the aircraft was over water only because high-altitude winds caused the crew to take a northerly course over Scotland before heading west...
...filmmakers were politicians: they would be using the new Mississippi to depict the old. Mostly, the shooting proceeded without incident. Sometimes, though, old images must have haunted the older townsfolk. One day Colesberry spotted one of the crew's pickup trucks toting a huge Klan cross through town and had the driver cover it up. During the ten-week shoot, derelict churches and other structures were set ablaze; production paused while the ashes cooled down. One evening the company assembled to film the burning of a local black church, which had been bought and would be rebuilt to the congregation...
...nearby golf course and taken to the town hall, which had been turned into a makeshift mortuary. One body was found on a back porch, another entangled in the branches of a tree. Three miles away, the plane's blue-and-white cockpit, containing the bodies of the flight crew, was perched, almost intact, on a hillside, severed from the rest of the fuselage as if by a giant karate chop...
...London a member of a ground crew put explosives aboard...