Sentences with phrase «shrapnel when»
The recalls began several years ago after Takata discovered that many front passenger - side airbags could rupture and spray shrapnel when deployed, increasing the risk of injury to occupants.
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While they're rare, it's hard to guarantee a plane's safety when shrapnel starts flying, he said.
That record for avoiding fatalities — which had never been approached in the history of modern aviation — was splintered in an instant Tuesday when an engine on a Southwest Airlines (luv) plane exploded mid-air, spewing shrapnel into a window and killing a passenger.
When someone throws a hand grenade, it's impossible to know where every single piece of shrapnel will fall.
And if you got the «spectacle» you suggested with the truck bomb, although merely expressed on a blog, when the bomb explodes, the shrapnel will fly in all directions.
The members of that great»42 Union team had vowed to come back and finish school together.But when Bull Cyclone returned late in» 45, shrapnel in his right leg, blinking nervously from all the gunfire, jumping at unexpected noises, he discovered that the Union administration had eliminated football.
His own father lost half of his leg when it was hit by shrapnel in 1945 in Okinawa.
When you mount the target, it sits at a nice angle to help get the shrapnel to the ground instead of being propelled through the air.
A further blow came in 1929 when American astronomer Edwin Hubble observed that galaxies were flying apart from each other like pieces of cosmic shrapnel.
When quickly reheated in a microwave and then pierced, the picnic staple can explode with a loud bang in a shower of hot, rubbery shrapnel.
When a cosmic ray strikes the nucleus of a gas molecule in the atmosphere, both explode in a shower of subatomic shrapnel that triggers a wider cascade of particle collisions.
When the pressure inside is great enough, the kernel explodes, shattering its pericarp like a shrapnel grenade.
yes IED's do have shrapnel but I believe the biggest threat is from the superhot liquid metal, IE they put copper shavings or something along those lines in the device so when the explosion occurs a jet of liquid metal is projected in a directed fashion (in the most deadly IED's) so as to either burn thru soft barriers and to weaken hardened materials which the following shrapel has an easier time penetrating.
I couldn't believe how it exploded when it hit the ground.It had some great mileage.Pumpkin shrapnel and guts were everywhere.
When a spacecraft carrying research samples from a shady corporate gene - editing experiment explodes in the atmosphere — Marley Shelton appears in this delightfully bonkers riff on «Alien,» with a giant space rat — scattering its tainted shrapnel across the U.S., George, a wolf and a crocodile are infected with the stuff.
(Who needs evil alien space babies when you've got Damon sweating bullets as he burrows into his side to scrape out shrapnel?)
But the train arrived in less than a minute, and the crew did not have time to clear people from the bridge or the bed from the tracks — and when the train struck the bed, its metal parts were turned into flying shrapnel.
Three students were slightly injured from shrapnel and debris when the bullet went through the ceiling of the classroom.
He had spit blood and hot metal into his hand, put the shrapnel in his pocket, and later showed it to his worried brother, who burst into tears and clutched him in a bear hug when they were reunited in Captain Francis's tent, where George sat with his feet propped on a trunk and a cigar stuck in his bandaged face.
When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten, shrapnel - riddled metal, officials fear terrorism.
While she still has the trademark tools of an assassin of the era, she carries more throwing knives than her brother, sports a special «Voltaic Bomb» that acts as a type of stun grenade when it explodes into electrified shrapnel, and can utilize a unique «Chameleon Skill» that allows her to completely blend into her environment, even seemingly out in the open, when she remains perfectly still.
When Zed time builds in later rounds, slow - motion headshots and the shrapnel from grenades combines in a beautiful, if gory display of warfare.
Pinchot met Cord Meyer in 1944 when he was a Marine Corps lieutenant who had lost his left eye because of shrapnel injuries received in combat.
When an American woman named Elizabeth Suda first visited Laos in 2008, she discovered villagers fashioning shrapnel into spoons.
When the airbag begins to inflate the force becomes too great and the pump explodes, causing metal shards and shrapnel to be propelled into the vehicle.
When the inflator ruptures passengers are at risk of being injured by the explosion and metal shrapnel.
About Blog «Gender shrapnel» is a series of small workplace explosions that occur when no one person or organization is purposefully discriminating against women based on sex.
About Blog «Gender shrapnel» is a series of small workplace explosions that occur when no one person or organization is purposefully discriminating against women based on sex.