Word: plane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's second drive, after two Menick rushes set up Harvard inside the Dartmouth 20, it was Fried again, as Wilford found him by the sideline, two yards out of the end zone, and Fried crossed the plane to give Harvard the lead...
...NCAAs in Indiana. The kids who line up at Regionals and worry about making it to the Big Show are the ones who are going to choke. The kids who focus on putting themselves in good position, racing hard, and finishing strong are the ones getting on a plane the next week. The other kids get a one-way ticket to the Smack Down Hotel...
...incredibly well-preserved picture greets the viewer, and the opening scenes appear both surreal and promising. The film is set in 1916, before war-weariness had begun to be epidemic among troops and their homelands. The Germans shoot down a French reconnaissance plane that holds two of the movie's main characters, Lieutenant Marechal (Jean Gabin) and Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay). The film almost prompts laughter, for Erich von Stroheim's Captain von Rauffenstein invites the captured parties for a meal before sending them off to a prison camp...
...Payne Stewart's plane finally crashed after flying unpiloted...
...plane carrying U.S. Open champion Stewart to Dallas took off from Orlando at 9.19 a.m. but stopped responding to air traffic controllers after 9.45 a.m. That prompted them to call the Air Force, which routinely tracks out-of-control aircraft. Although such planes can be shot down if they present a threat to public safety, that option was never considered in the case of Stewart's plane. Though the Learjet is equipped with masks and other depressurization emergency equipment similar to that of an airliner, some experts believe that insidious - rather than sudden - depressurization can confuse and disorient a pilot...