Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commercial airliners, the Airline Pilots Association has disclosed, are involved in an average of four near-collisions every day, and in one quarter of these the planes pass within 100 feet of each other. From 1950 till the Grand Canyon disaster on June 30, 1956, almost seventy collisions involving civil...
The case history of the Grand Canyon disaster indicates some of the shortcomings of the present traffic control system. The two planes--a Trans-World Airlines Super-Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7--took off from Los Angeles three minutes apart and were to fly approximately the same course...
At the present time, the odds are heavily weighted against a summit meeting resulting in any success at all for the United States. Such a conference could be a propaganda disaster for this country, and it seems safe to assume that the Kremlin will engage in no discussion that would...
It hadn't been just another day like all days; it had been a day of personal disaster for Mansley W. R. Montebank III, Class of '61.
The trace of air that exists at this altitude has almost no drag, so Dr. Hagen thinks that the little satellite "will probably circle the earth over the heads of your grandchildren, and even their grandchildren," for as many as 200 years. Its two radio transmitters are still working fine...