Word: crews
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...this gutted plane had survived. The fire aboard TWA Flight 843 erupted in the rear of the L-1011 jumbo jet as it was about to lift off for San Francisco with 292 aboard. The pilot aborted the takeoff, the plane crashed through a runway barrier and the crew chuted out the passengers with expert precision; 55 people suffered minor injuries. Other air travelers were not so lucky. A Thai jetliner carrying 113 people reportedly slammed into a Himalayan mountainside as it approached Katmandu, Nepal; all are feared dead. In Nanjing, China, at least 100 died in a takeoff crash...
...project was known simply as the Outpost Mission -- one of the cold war's most closely guarded secrets. Beginning in the mid-1950s, an elite unit of helicopter pilots and crew, the 2857th Test Squadron, was stationed at Olmsted Air Force Base in Pennsylvania posing as a rescue team for military and civilians in distress. Their real mission, so sensitive that only the pilots and base commander knew, was to rescue President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- and, later, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon -- in the event of a nuclear attack. Posted outside the blast range of an atomic...
Elizabeth O'Leary, coach of Harvard's women's crew team, said yesterday that Seaton and Maxwell-Pearson had hoped for a gold medal after promising trial times...
Using scanning and transmission workstations developed by Israel's Scitex Corp., Kevin and his crew will be able to produce the final, high-quality photographs on site. The images will have the same sharp quality as those scanned on our premises and will be ready for use in the magazine. Notes McVea: "These innovations actually extend our deadlines. Four years ago, it took up to five hours to process and send a single image from the Seoul Olympics. With this technology, all that work takes just 35 minutes...
...withdrawal immediately prompted an angry exchange of threats between Washington and Baghdad and frantic negotiations at U.N. headquarters in New York City to seek Iraqi compliance. By week's end the U.S., Britain and other allies were careering toward another showdown with Iraq. Shore leave in the Mediterranean for crew members of the aircraft carrier Saratoga was canceled, President Bush met with top defense advisers, and officials in several Western capitals huddled to phrase an ultimatum...