Word: overing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When obsessed fans turn violent, say experts, it is usually not out of hatred but because their romantic fantasies cannot be fulfilled. Celebrities with the sweetest images may be the most vulnerable, perhaps because their seeming availability makes the frustrated fan's disappointment more intense. Thus an actress like Joan...
Warning signs of obsession are usually evident long before fans attack. Overardent admirers talk incessantly about their idols. They watch their films again and again or play their recordings over and over. They neglect responsibilities at home, school or work. Sometimes they devote an entire room to a celebrity, filling...
Nothing seemed amiss when Captain Alfred Haynes, 59, a 33-year United Airlines veteran, lifted the three-engine DC-10 into sunny skies over Denver for a two-hour flight to Chicago. The airliner, configured to hold 287 passengers, had only five vacant seats. Since United had designated July as...
By then Haynes had managed to guide his disabled craft toward Sioux City in a wide descending spiral of right turns. "We're going to make an emergency landing in Sioux City," he warned passengers over the intercom. "It's going to be rough." He paused. "As a matter of...
At 3:53 p.m. the voice on the intercom shouted, "Brace! Brace! Brace!" Four minutes later, some ten seconds short of the runway, the DC-10's right wing dipped, slicing into the dirt to the left of the asphalt. The plane plowed into the ground and flipped over twice...