Word: reared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driving his own children to school, also plunged in, pulling seven bodies from the water. Nye, a scuba diver, said efforts to help the children were hampered by water so opaque that it was impossible to see. Trapped children struggled to get out the front door, windows and one rear-end exit door. "I didn't expect to be alive, but I'm alive," said one. Twenty youngsters died and 63 people were injured, including the two drivers, in the worst school-bus accident in Texas history...
Despite recent structural mishaps with McDonnell Douglas' problem-plagued DC- 10 jumbo jet, the aircraft manufacturer plans to add an additional fuel tank beneath the rear engine of an updated version of the plane called the MD- 11. Some startled pilots at Delta Air Lines -- which is buying the new plane -- are outraged that the designers would place 2,000 gal. of combustible fuel right under the same engine that disintegrated last month on a United Airlines DC-10. If the controversial fuel bladder had been on the ill-fated United plane when the engine disintegrated, the pilots...
...most frightening accident of the week was reminiscent of the July 19 crash of a United Airlines DC-10 in Sioux City, Iowa, caused when the rear engine exploded, cutting the plane's hydraulic flight controls. On Wednesday the rear engine shattered on a Northwest DC-10 headed for Minneapolis, blasting holes in the engine housing. The plane landed safely in Denver. In the first mishap, the engine was a General Electric model, in the second, a Pratt & Whitney; no cause has been determined for either explosion...
...July 19, 111 people die when a DC-10 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa, after its rear engine disintegrates. Then, this weekend, another DC-10 has to make an emergency landing in Denver after its tail engine explodes...
...many people have to die in DC-10 crashes before the FAA wakes up? Two rear-engine explosions in less than a month indicate a fairly serious problem, and the FAA would be well-advised to ground the jet until its comes up with a solution to that problem...