Word: plane
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Witnesses said the Northwest Airlines plane rocked from side to side and plunged to the ground moments after takeoff Sunday night, trailing fire as it skidded beneath an Interstate 94 overpass and broke into dozens of burning pieces on the interstate and Middlebelt Road, which borders Detroit Metropolitan Airport. It was the nation's second-worst air disaster...
...four-year-old girl was hospitalized in critical condition, and officials tried to determine whether she had been in the plane or on the ground...
Some debris had been taken from the site, and seven people were arrested for allegedly looting Sunday night, officials said. Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano said the people were carrying items ranging from purses to pieces of the plane but his office refused to give out any more information...
...survival was due to being padded by her mother, at least we assume it was her mother," said Pam Davidson, a paramedic who was present when the child was found. "There was debris everywhere and there was no way to determine if the wreckage was part of the plane or another vehicle...
...hits and a fatal plane crash. How many films can be squeezed out of this formula? O.K., The Buddy Holly Story and Patsy Cline's Sweet Dreams were good movies. But . . . La Bamba? Ritchie Valens was only 17 when he, Holly and J.P. ("Big Bopper") Richardson died in 1959. His music is surely worth remembering; his life is hardly worth dramatizing. So Writer-Director Luis Valdez shapes facts into fable. Valens' family is a chicano caricature; death forever stalks our shooting star; chunky Ritchie is made over into winsome Lou Diamond Phillips. Even the music (by Los Lobos) sounds thin...