Sentences with phrase «number of plane crashes»

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It should communicate an understanding of the nature of mental illness that will help to erase the inaccurate stereotypes about it (that is, it should include facts showing that the proportion of mentally ill persons who are wild and destructive is about the same as the proportion of planes that crash as compared with the total number of planes that fly.)

The Cornhuskers will play the season with a black number 18 on their helmets, in memory of former quarterback Brook Berringer, who was killed in a plane crash on April 18.

Prior to the press conference, speculation about whether the victim of the crash was Halladay was tied to the tail number of the plane, which matched that of the plane he owned.

Fifth was the mysterious «plane crash» in Kano in 1996 in which Ibrahim Abacha, the first son of General Sani Abacha, together with his close friends Bello Dangote, Omieba Princewill and a number of others lost their lives.

Also, the section hit by the plane had recently been renovated and a number of security measures installed: strengthened walls, blast - resistant windows, a new sprinkler system, fire dampers in the ducts, and accordion fire doors that slammed shut immediately after the crash.

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.

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.

Number 11 in the Charlie Parker series, John Connolly's latest novel begins with an ominous discovery: a plane has crashed in Maine's Great North Woods containing a list of those who have struck a deal with the devil.

Last fall, Niederhoffer sold a large number of options, betting that the markets would be quiet, and they were, until out of nowhere two planes crashed into the World Trade Center.

If you are planning a trip that involves air travel and you find out that one airline has a crash rate of.01 % and another.1 % (these are just hypothetical numbers; planes are much safer than this), you are going to choose the former, even if you are considering one - in - on - thousand chances because the consequences are so dire / fatal.

Apparently over the past years quite a number of government ministers have been killed in plane crashes.

With planes there could be a number of reasons for a crash, but none of them are excusable.

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).