Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Greco lauded the passengers and crew for maintaining calm and said the nature of the breakup of the plane largely determined the pattern of deaths and injuries...
...plane, crippled by a loss of hydraulic power, pitched violently to its right just a few feet from the ground, scraped its right wing, cartwheeled into a ball of fire and broke into pieces during an emergency landing about 4 p.m. at the Sioux Gateway Airport...
Survivor Garry Priest, 23, of Northglenn, Colo., said those who got out of the plane saw what "looked like a war zone. Bodies, trash, magazines, luggage and pieces of bodies littered the area. It was the worst thing I've ever seen...
Talk about automatic pilot. When two American F-15 jets rose to intercept an alien aircraft that was entering West German airspace at 9:42 a.m. last Tuesday, they encountered an empty Soviet MiG-23 fighter. Flying at an altitude of nearly 40,000 ft., the plane was without a pilot, and its canopy was gone. For fear of creating lethal falling debris, officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization refrained from ordering the craft shot down and instead told the U.S. pilots to escort it out to open sea. But the MiG ran out of fuel near the Belgian...
...Embarrassed Soviet officials later explained that the MiG's pilot had ejected shortly after takeoff from Poland's Kolobrzeg air base, in the mistaken belief that his aircraft had lost power. The plane flew on automatic pilot for 1 hour and 37 minutes, covering 560 miles before falling out of the sky. Soviet officials promised to pay for "physical and moral damages" caused by the mishap...