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...were seared by flames. Said he: "I shall never forget the screaming, never." Miraculously, most of those aboard, including the pilot and ten crew members, managed to get out of the plane. But 50, most of them seated in the rear of the plane, died in the inferno, and 15 others were listed in serious condition. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board, assisting Spanish and McDonnell Douglas experts, thought the vibrations may have come from one or more blown tires. Another possibility: a failure in one of the DC-10's high-pressure, high-velocity turbofan engines...
Particularly about prices. The S.M.A.P. keeps reading about fearful rates of inflation, but he still cannot get used to surrendering 75? to enter the pestilential inferno of the New York City subway (and reading headlines wondering whether impending increases can hold the fare to $1). He can remember paying a fare of a nickel. He begrudges paying 30? for those headlines too, when the Boston Post in his boyhood cost 2?. Well, the Boston Post no longer exists; perhaps he will see the day when the New York subway no longer exists either...
...referring to last week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejection of a freeze resolution, said, "We will remember that vote in November." Other speakers remembered August 1945: survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings spoke in Japanese, translated for the crowd, of their firsthand visions of "a living inferno...
...ships, pulling on life jackets and leaping into water that was sometimes aflame with burning oil. Bright orange life rafts were thrown into the sea; some immediately burst into flame as they were hit by debris from the explosions, while others were blown by fierce winds back into the inferno. The winds whipped up huge flames aboard the landing vessels, and then, as fuel tanks exploded, the ships were enveloped in black, acrid smoke...
...there were men down there, but we didn't know how many." After hours of unsuccessful fire fighting, Salt made the agonizing decision to abandon ship. Later he returned to his command by helicopter to view the damage. The Sheffield had refused to sink, but it remained an inferno. Recalled Salt: "The whole of the working area of the ship was a roaring mass of flames. We could see right down into the engine room...