Word: reared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central daylight time), as the DC-10 cruised at 33,000 ft. above the tiny town of Alta, Iowa (pop. 1,720), it was jolted. Passengers heard an explosion at the plane's rear, then felt the huge craft shake and pitch downward. In Row 11 of the economy section in front of the wings, Lori Michaelson was traveling with her husband and three children. "I could see the stewardesses looked kind of panicky," she recalled later. That was understandable. One of them had been knocked to the floor...
Only three sections came to rest intact enough to be recognizable: the nose and flight deck; a passenger area, containing Rows 9 to 19, that had been attached to the now severed wings; the tail, including a few rear seats. As rescue crews swung into action, they were startled by the sight of passengers emerging from the smoking rubble and walking away from the wreck into the field of 7-ft.-tall corn...
...that had been flung from the aircraft. A woman in the middle of one row was barely bruised. Her husband, seated beside her, and two passengers in the row behind her were dead. Along with most passengers in the rows near the wing, a handful of those at the rear were also alive. The three-man cockpit crew had to be cut free of the tangled and wrecked flight deck, but all survived. Of the eight attendants, only one died...
...three members of the cockpit crew survived the crash, but Greco said the first-class section was devastated. Passengers in rows nine through 19 suffered only minor injuries, he added, but "there was nothing left of the rear half of the aircraft...
...with crowbars knocked spaghetti, oranges and hunks of meat onto the floor as they rushed to scoop up groceries. Others carted off boxes of laundry detergent, frozen foods and toilet paper into their Peugots, Volvos and even waiting taxis. Within 20 minutes they had destroyed the bakery at the rear of the store, smashed out the windows and broken open the cash registers. As the looters left, one of them, laughing hilariously, asked Nicastro, "What time do you open tomorrow...