Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the stadium seemed almost fully vacant by 3 p.m., (No chance of me leaving, hmmph.) But when the rains let up, the grounds crew danced, and baseball would be played. Alas, not on my beloved screen--into the 11th it went, but major league regulations forced it off as our own game-start neared...
...explode it did, with such hellish force as to eliminate almost immediately all hope that any of the 132 people aboard -- five crew, 127 passengers -- could have lived. Except for the tail, USAir 427 shattered into so many pieces that the twisted and burned shards of metal were unrecognizable as airplane wreckage...
Such ghastly scenes raise again questions the U.S. had almost forgotten: Can air travel maintain its recent glowing safety record? Or are financially troubled airlines -- USAir in particular -- skimping dangerously on maintenance and crew training to cut losses? It is difficult to answer without some idea of what caused the crash of USAir 427, and there were few early clues. Though the black box of voice recordings from the crew was recovered, it revealed only uninformative cries of "Oh, God" and "Oh, s---" and the words "traffic emergency" followed by a scream. "We're all very much at a loss...
...USAir Boeing 737, en route from Chicago to Palm Beach, Florida, via Pittsburgh, went into a fatal nose dive just a few minutes before landing at the Pittsburgh airport. All 132 people aboard perished in the crash, the reasons for which were not clear. The crew's frantic last words -- "Oh God Traffic emergency!" -- indicated trouble but were not specific. Investigators are hoping that flight data from the plane's black box will provide further clues...
...Force brought 26 charges of negligent homicide and two charges of dereliction of duty against the senior F-15 pilot involved in the downing of two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq last April. Also charged with dereliction of duty were five members of an AWACs radar-plane crew. Twenty-six people died in the tragedy...