Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jonas R. Klein and Christina Park, both 18, were flying back from upstate New York to Boston's Logan International Airport when the crash occurred. The plane's pilot--Jonas' father Elliot Klein, 49--and the fourth passenger, family friend Jean Kimball, 45, were also killed in the crash...
Around 2:30 p.m. Sunday, skydiver Alfred Peters, 51, jumped from a Cessna aircraft and accelerated to about 120 miles per hour when he struck the rear of Klein's single-engine Piper Cherokee PA28. Peters, who had not yet opened his parachute, apparently hit the plane with his ankle, sending it into a fatal tailspin...
...said it appeared the plane came from behindand underneath his company's plane...
Strickland, who was one of five on the plane tojump after Peters, said he and the other jumperssaw nothing. But the plane's pilot saw the Pipercrash...
...ballad, with each painting a stanza: taut, compressed, pared down to the barest requirements of narration. No. 10, They Were Very Poor, takes the elements of a Southern sharecropper's life down to the static minimum: a man and a woman staring at empty bowls on a bare brown plane, an empty basket hung on the wall by an enormous nail -- the sort of nail you imagine in a crucifixion. There isn't a trace of the sentimentality that coats Picasso's Blue Period miserablisme...