Sentences with phrase «airliner crashes»

When a commercial passenger airliner crashes, survivors or the families of the people killed in the crash may not know what to do.

That's almost 3,000 men, women, and children dead every single month, year in, year out — roughly four airliner crashes every week.

Two years ago, the commission required new licensees to assess whether their reactors could withstand an airliner crash.

First responders and law enforcement gather in the field where an airliner crashed after takeoff Friday, just outside the international airport in Havana, Cuba.

That disaster specifically being an airliner crashing toward the city while the Chrysler Building is hit by something and all but collapses.

Not exact matches

It also plans a «step change» in aviation security following the crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt last month, which Britain has said it believes was brought down by a bomb.

A 39 - year - old airliner with 110 people aboard has crashed and burned in a cassava field just after takeoff from the Havana airport, leaving three survivors in Cuba's worst aviation disaster in three decades, officials say.

HAVANA >> A 39 - year - old airliner with 110 people aboard crashed and burned in a cassava field just after taking off from the Havana airport Friday, leaving three survivors in Cuba's worst aviation disaster in three decades, officials said.

Analyses of airliner impacts became mandatory after terrorists deliberately crashed two aircraft into the World Trade Center twin towers in New York in 2001.

Although our team knew little of Lake Cheko, we thought that we could perhaps apply paleolimnological techniques and find in the lake's sediments clues to unravel the Tunguska mystery, as if the lake were the black box from a crashed airliner.

In 1987 a liquor bottle filled with liquid explosives, placed in a carry - on bag in an overhead bin, helped terrorists crash a South Korean airliner.

A leap second may have caused the Russian satellite navigation system to crash for hours, and critics claim the added instants could cause commercial airliners to crash as well.

Although stringent civilian and military security countermeasures have been implemented to stop determined assaults, the deliberate crash of a large commercial airliner looms in the imagination.

SMR - 160 protects its important equipment — needed for safe operation and cooling — with a monolithic steel and concrete shield, impregnable to natural disasters, or to a crashing fighter plane or commercial airliner.

First came the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, followed by the crash of a passenger airliner headed for the Dominican Republic, the birthplace of many area residents.

If commercial airliners were crashing in thunderstorms every year or two, resulting in the deaths of hundreds, would they be front - page news?

Consider this: if, when the Comet airliners were crashing in the 1950's, politicians and bureaucracies had excessively regulated aviation as they have done with nuclear, so that air fares were much higher and passenger numbers 1 / 10th to 1/20 of what they are now, would passenger air travel have be safer?