Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attract much attention (in 1983, the latest year for which such figures are available, 261 youngsters under age 18 were killed in shooting mishaps). But the next day another Houston boy, 12, shot and killed his eight-year-old half brother. Two days later, a third local youngster was fatally shot with a pistol. By last week the Houston area had recorded 13 accidental shootings in nine weeks, six of them fatal, all of them involving victims under 18 years...
...remain a mystery. The FDA has examined almost 500,000 Tylenol capsules from across the U.S. for evidence of cyanide, but has turned up nothing since Feb. 13, when investigators found cyanide in a second bottle of capsules, taken from a store just a few blocks from where the fatal package was sold in Bronxville...
...more rapidly if they were not concerned that the Iranian bridgehead at Fao was a feint to draw off troops from Basra, Iraq's second largest city. Across the nearby border, Iran has amassed 200,000 soldiers. To have the city cut off would be a stunning and perhaps fatal blow to the Baghdad government. As the battle at Fao raged, Iraqi fighters shot down an Iranian plane on a flight from Tehran to Ahvaz. All 46 aboard, including eight members of Iran's parliament, perished...
...rocket's four segments. At 59.8 seconds, high in the sky, flame burst through the booster's steel casing, apparently at the same aft joint. In another 13 seconds, the external tank that fueled the orbiter's three main engines exploded in a catastrophic, fatal fireball...
...videotape lends support to theories that an O ring was at fault. According to a flight "time-line" compiled by NASA and released at week's end the smoke first appeared .445 seconds after booster ignition. It swirled between the rocket and the external tank, near where the fatal burnthrough seems to have occurred. One solid-rocket specialist noted that because the puff was dark, it probably did not result from combustion of the booster's solid fuel, which produces light-colored smoke. More likely, it came from the burning O ring or the putty placed inside the rings...