Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crashes were comparable as cautionary tales, they differed sharply in severity. The LaGuardia accident resulted in two deaths and seven hospital admissions. The Chad mishap killed all 171 people on board. Yet in the week following the two crashes, the Washington Post ran an identical number of stories, five, about each. The Los Angeles Times published almost twice as many stories about the New York City crash (ten) as the one in Chad (six). In the New York Times, the LaGuardia crash rated twelve stories, the Chad disaster six. The networks reacted similarly: ABC's Nightline, for example, aired three...
...mishap arose from a miscommunication over Lipscomb's planned retirement next year after 30 years at Harvard, she said. Core officials believed the professor retired last June, she said...
Some mechanical problems are hard to spot in even the most thorough of inspections. Case in point: experts suspect that microscopic cracks on a 300- lb. revolving disk caused the tail engine on a United Airlines DC-10 to blow apart last July. The mishap crippled the jet's hydraulic steering system, killing 112 people when the plane crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa. (McDonnell Douglas said last week that it would modify its DC-10s to ensure safe landings even if all hydraulic systems failed...
...Airlines DC-10 in Sioux City, Iowa, caused when the rear engine exploded, cutting the plane's hydraulic flight controls. On Wednesday the rear engine shattered on a Northwest DC-10 headed for Minneapolis, blasting holes in the engine housing. The plane landed safely in Denver. In the first mishap, the engine was a General Electric model, in the second, a Pratt & Whitney; no cause has been determined for either explosion...
...accident, after even the livestock had been led to safety. Now, three years later, the supreme soviet of the Byelorussian Republic has suggested that an additional 106,000 people be relocated. If approved by Moscow, this evacuation would confirm suspicions that Soviet officials downplayed the severity of the mishap and grossly underestimated the risk it posed to human life...