Word: runways
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deadliest of the mishaps occurred as a chartered Spanish DC-10, fully laden with 380 tourists bound for New York, was racing down the runway of the airport near the seaside resort of Málaga. As the aircraft approached the necessary takeoff speed of more than 180 m.p.h., the plane began to vibrate severely. Pilot Juan Pérez apparently responded by slamming on the brakes, although at that point there is usually neither enough time nor enough room to bring a plane to a safe halt on the runway. Lighting panels dropped from the roof of the cabin...
Westover Air Force Base. The only place in the East north of Cape Canaveral with a runway capable of handling the space shuttle, this western Massachusetts facility has been doled out a parcel at a time since the Strategic Air Command left it in 1974. The base golf course was given to the neighboring town of Ludlow; an electric utility consortium purchased the vaults once used to store nuclear warheads. A private developer is currently converting onetime servicemen's residences into one, two-and three-bedroom units that will sell for $25,000 to $35,000. Now the base hospital...
Somehow the pilot managed to pull up the nose of the Ilyushin, but the plane still hit the runway so hard that its tires blew out. Then, one by one, the bleeding hijackers were dragged feet first down the aisle and out of the plane. Three of them were unconscious, and the American passengers were convinced that at least two were dead, although Chinese authorities later insisted that all had survived...
...breakfast to a planeload of press that cost the reporters $113 each. The flight was loaded and ready to head to Hawaii when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. As President Johnson pondered the crisis, flight attendants brought out the eggs Benedict. The trip was canceled on the runway and costs for the unflown jet charter were divided among the passengers...
...dramatic idea may be drawn out to great length to express an emotion or state of mind. Take the openemotion or state of mind. Take the opening of the touching Sumidagawa. Hanjo (Utaemon), a mother searching for her kidnaped child, appears first at the back of the hanamichi, the runway used for important entrances and exits that extends from the stage well out into the audience. Her torturous progress in slow, halting steps shows her distraught emotional state and firmly establishes the tragic mood...