Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evidence presented by a University ornithologist has somewhat substantiated the Federal Aviation Agency's theory that a flock of starlings, sucked into the engine on take-off, caused the Eastern Airlines Electra to crash Tuesday night at Logan International Airport, killing 61 persons...
...asked for a laboratory check of dead starlings on the runway, after Gen. Elwood Quesada, Federal Aviation Administrator, theorized that the plane hit a flock of birds on the runway...
...basis of Paynter's findings, the FAA now assumes that the plane flew through a flock of starlings, some of which jammed the engine. The agency expects to find bits of birds in the engine when it is salvaged from...
Paynter had previously been advising the Fish and Wildlife Service on ways to combat the dangerous flocking of seagulls around the airport. He had expected to hear that gulls caused the crash, he said, because it was a flock of gulls, not starlings, which had previously proven bothersome at Logan and had prompted the Fish and Wildlife Service's action...
...other sub-plot, which is partially justified by some noble writing for the bass-baritone, tells of Father Dossifey and his attempt to win peace and prosperity for his flock. In the end, the Czarina--at least, I think it's the Czarina--has him killed for reasons best known to herself...