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Less than one minute after takeoff, the aircraft plunged 400 feet and fell through the roof of the Yacht Club building, on 45 Memorial Drive, at about 9:33 a.m., said eyewitnesses on the scene yesterday...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: 4 Die as Helicopter Hits Sailing Pavilion | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...blink of an eye, for less thanten seconds," said Barber. "As I turned around, Isaw the tail section hit the roof...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: 4 Die as Helicopter Hits Sailing Pavilion | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

Before his eyes, a State Police helicopter, locked in a tailspin, lurched to one side and smashed onto the roof of the two-story Harvard Yacht Club building, killing the two state police officers and two American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) employees on board...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Witnesses Describe Dramatic Moment of Terror, Response | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...wreckage was strewn on the roof above them,and the crew had no way of climbing...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Witnesses Describe Dramatic Moment of Terror, Response | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...separated by flimsy, sliding shoji screens. Scawthorn's recommendation: place a few steel braces along the exterior walls, and reinforce one or two interior walls so they can help carry the weight of the second story. ``Last of all,'' he says, ``I would take those heavy tiles off the roof and replace them with the lighter-weight plastic ones available in Japan now.'' All told, the work and materials needed to reinforce a typical Japanese house might cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: QUAKE-PROOFING A HOUSE | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

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