Sentences with phrase «in a plane crash before»

Young and brash, Karlson described his job as «washing toilets and dishes and whatever the hell they gave me» 4 and talked his way into a number of short - lived assignments as an assistant to directors Arthur Lubin, Henry Koster, Tay Garnett, William Wyler, Stuart Walker and John Ford, and successfully pitched a story idea to Will Rogers, who unfortunately died in a plane crash before the film could be made.

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Washington (AFP)- An aging US military cargo plane carrying nine troops was destroyed in a fiery crash Wednesday as it made its final scheduled flight before being mothballed, officials said.

«What a great story it would be if Phil completed the grand slam here,» Stewart's daughter Chelsea Stewart said on the grounds where her father earned his final victory before dying in a plane crash four months later.

While defending Trump's immigration ban, Sen. Marty Golden, a Brooklyn Republican, falsely claimed that several of the 9 - 11 hijackers lived in Bay Ridge before crashing planes into the World Trade Center.

She'd been appointed to the Senate after her husband, Senate candidate and Gov. Mel Carnahan, was killed in a plane crash a few weeks before the 2000 election and was elected posthumously, defeating Republican Sen. John Ashcroft.

3rd democratic candidate to die in a small plane crash just before an election they were almost sure of winning...

Even before the construction of Camp Century and the plane crash, military operations had impacts on Greenlanders: The entire Inuit village of Uummannaq was relocated in 1953 to make way for the construction of the Thule Air Base, about 240 kilometers west of Camp Century.

Before the Fall is the thrilling story of a down - on - his - luck painter named Scott Burroughs, who mysteriously ends up on a private plane chartered by an incredibly wealthy family — and after a tragic crash in the Atlantic Ocean, is one of just two survivors.

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

He plays Lou Zamperini, an Olympic medallist who survived months at sea after a plane crash before being held as a POW in Japan.

Colton Harris - Moore had never been in a plane before he hot - wired a Cessna, flew 600 km and crashed in the bush.

Writer - director Paul Greengrass's frenetic handheld camerawork, aspiring in its blue / green - tinged slickness to doc - like immediacy, and the faceless cast of unknowns, all of whom appear to be attending an actors seminar held on a Universal Studios theme park roller coaster, are in service of an ideologically muddled house of cards, which crashes to earth long before the plane does.

I ran through a crashed plane, stood at the edge watched in awe as hundreds, maybe a thousand zombies stood before me, waiting to rip and tear every inch of flesh from my body.

Passengers (PG - 13 for mature themes, sensuality and scary images) Horror flick starring Anne Hathaway as a grief counselor to survivors of a plane crash who falls in love with one (Patrick Wilson) of her patients just before the others start disappearing mysteriously, one by one.

Synopsis: After a near - fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp...

I've said before my favorite Bridges» turn was in Fearless, as a man who survives a plane crash.

A prop plane crashes into a mall full of looters, speedboats race to get over the swell of a tsunami before it crests, power lines hiss out sparks as they snap across a San Francisco hill, and it's all staged in a way that somehow manages to look good without being exciting.

Why does it seem that we are closed then ever before to use our electronics on airplanes and not send the plane crashing in a fiery inferno?

A much later book that I'm reading by Bach is titled Travels with Puff: A Gentle Game of Life and Death, written before the plane crash, in his seaplane named Puff, that nearly took the author's life in 2012.

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.

Francis served in the United States Air Force during World War II before being injured in a plane crash.

Mr. Majerus was a prolific young Luxembourgian artist, globe - trotting between shows in Europe and the United States, before his life and career were cut short by a 2002 plane crash.

In this case, the mobile home park resident's statement that the plane was flying upside - down before the crash occurred raises the specter of negligence or human error, and it appears that someone may be legally responsible for the students» deaths.