Sentences with phrase «event of a plane crash»

Recently, I got a call from a woman who was concerned that her husband was flying overseas on a business trip and was concerned what would happen in the event of a plane crash.

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We also have tendencies to conform our opinions to those of the groups we identify with, to fear man - made risks more than we fear natural ones, and to believe that events causing dread — the technical term for risks that could result in particularly painful or gruesome deaths, like plane crashes and radiation burns — are inherently more risky than other events.

We are, for instance, pretty good at understanding the frequency of events (how often commercial airplanes crash) but not so good at gleaning probabilities (the likelihood that our plane will crash).

A convoluted plan that relies on events completely within the realm of chance yet comes off without a... Air China passenger plane «nearly crashes into a Hong Kong mountain after pilot fails to understand instructions and takes a WRONG turn» Flight CA428

The events of FD3 take place six years after the plane crash of depicted in Final Destination.

A plot twist involving veteran actors James Woods (the remake of «Straw Dogs «-RRB- and Richard Jenkins («Jack Reacher «-RRB-, as well as any number of shootings, killings, explosions, tank and helicopter attacks, plane crashes, beatings and the wounding of a conservative Glenn Beck - type TV host and other fun events round out this two - plus hour feast for dimwits.

While Aftermath is based on true events of two planes crashing in Germany in 2002, the premise of loved ones dealing with the «aftermath» is universal with any plane crashing.

While Aftermath is based on true events of two planes crashing in Germany in 2002, the premise of... Read More

And before you brush this off as mere coincidence, know this isn't the first time Clancy has predicted, or should I say controlled real life events: in his1994 book, Debt of Honor, he described a terrorist attack involving a plane crashing into the Capitol, the intended destination of the flight heroically brought down by passengers during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

With the Watergate hearings as a backdrop, quotes from various newspapers and magazines — including the story of Robert Smithson's death in a plane crash — build a picture of the confusing and tragic events of July 1973.

A fatal crash of a plane they took last week or were planning to take next week or take regularly, a bomb that rocks through our favorite coffee shop or hotel or our local airport — these are the events that shake us to our core despite statistics telling us we have a MUCH greater chance of being struck by lightning than dying in a terrorist attack.

One form of travel insurance commonly sold at airports is «flight accident insurance», which generally pays a lump dollar amount in the event of death from a plane crash, an extremely rare event.

This type of coverage provides them with accidental death insurance in the unlikely event that they do not survive a plane crash.

When purchasing a travel insurance package, people can inform their insurers of how much money they would like their beneficiaries to receive in the event that they are involved in a plane crash.

If the plane crash in Egypt becomes deemed as a terrorist event in the future, and meets Tin Leg» $ ™ s definition of «terrorism» (below), there may be coverage for Tin Leg customers to cancel or interrupt their trip on all policies, purchased in the past or future.

In more recent times, a number of traumatic events have occurred on Friday the 13th, including the German bombing of Buckingham Palace (September 1940); the murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, New York (March 1964); a cyclone that killed more than 300,000 people in Bangladesh (November 1970); the disappearance of a Chilean Air Force plane in the Andes (October 1972); the death of rapper Tupac Shakur (September 1996) and the crash of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the coast of Italy, which killed 30 people (January 2012).