Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When an airline accident occurs, almost anywhere in the world, air-safety teams rush to the scene to begin a painstaking effort to establish the cause-and, where possible, to find ways of reducing the chances of similar tragedies. The probe of last week's collision of two 747...
All 234 passengers and the 14 crew members of the KLM plane perished. There were 67 survivors from the Pan Am plane?most of them from California, where the flight had originated. One woman died aboard the military aircraft sent to fly the injured back to the U.S. At week...
This week reality stepped in. Late Sunday afternoon, a Pan American 747, chartered out of Los Angeles and laden with at least 394 crew and passengers, was taxiing along a foggy runway at Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. On an intersecting runway, a KLM 747, chartered...
Reports from three different regions of the U.S. last week starkly demonstrated the potential for environmental disaster in a technological society:
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