The explosion of the rifle had crashed against the walls of the stockade and the deep echoes were still rolling in the hills.

He had not covered a hundred yards before a gun crashed from somewhere behind.

The seemingly quiet ocean had crashed a wall of water from 10 to 100 feet high upon beaches crowded with bathers, drowning thousands of them and flattening villages along the shore.

`` The first two pilots had crashed '', he said.

United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field as flight attendants and passengers — who had heard about the other three hijacked planes ramming into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — fought hijackers who were likely flying to crash the plane either into the White House or the United States Capitol.

His near light speed ship had been gone so long that on its return to Urth, there were no space port facilities any more, and it crashed.

When placed on exhibit with the Canadian display, The Mammoth Cheese promptly crashed through the floor and had to be placed on reinforced concrete in the Agricultural Building.

Metsähallitus also said that the tree had actually crashed over a road during a storm.

Subsequently, in " Dalek " ( 2005 ), it is revealed that the last great Time War was fought between the Time Lords and the Daleks, ending in the obliteration of both sides and with only two apparent survivors ; the Doctor and a lone Dalek that had somehow fallen through time and crashed on Earth.

The success did not last as they lost Jimmy Wynn for the season after he crashed into an outfield fence in Philadelphia and Morgan had broken his knee cap.

The German naval trawler carrying the team crashed on the rocks just off Jan Mayen after a patrolling British destroyer had picked them up on radar.

Moon even crashed a milk float vehicle that he had purchased on his own property.

The catcher chose instead to dive into the waters where Clemente's plane had crashed in an effort to find his teammate.

Amundsen disappeared on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission with Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot René Guilbaud, and three more Frenchmen, looking for missing members of Nobile's crew, whose new airship Italia had crashed while returning from the North Pole.

In " All Good Things ...", the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Enterprise-D was shown in an alternate future where it had not crashed during the events of Star Trek: Generations, and instead had been made Admiral William T. Riker's personal flagship.

Perhaps the most serious occurred in an " Air Threat Conference Call " initiated by the National Military Command Center ( NMCC ) after two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center, but shortly before The Pentagon was hit.

The French had a nominally Mach 2 Dassault Mirage IIIV fitted with no less than 8 lift engines that flew ( and crashed ), but did not have enough space for fuel or payload for combat missions.

The chase featured a spectacular motorcycle stunt: stuntman Ronald " Duffy " Hambleton ( credited as Duffy Hamilton ), rode his police bike full speed into a fallen paint stand ( with a ramp built to Hambleton's specification ), flew over the handlebars, was hit by the airborne bike, landed in the street on his back, and slammed into the crashed car that Duvall's character had escaped in-evidently the subject of a comment by Lucas detailing a " motorcycle disaster " during the filming.

NORAD insisted to the 9 / 11 Commission that fighters would have intercepted Flight 93 before it reached its target in Washington, D. C., but the commission disagreed, stating that " NORAD did not even know the plane was hijacked until after it had crashed " and concluding that had it not crashed it probably would have arrived in Washington by 10: 23.

The Spoonbills are protected by the National Audubon Society, two of whose representatives had died when their plane crashed on Dr. No's airstrip.

In any case, he had no intention of being caught asleep, so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence.

He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.

He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

Morgan returned to the kitchen, built a fire, and carried in several buckets of water from the spring which he poured into the copper boiler that he had placed on the stove.

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand, the stock bumping on the wood floor.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.

But it had missed the bone and had passed on through.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.

He scrubbed absent-mindedly at the pans and reflected on how things had turned out.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

I had signed it off on the forms.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was to him that Barton had sent Carl Dill on Dill's release from the prison.

When the Atari VCS gaming system ( whose name was coined as a takeoff of the VES ) was released a year later, it had considerably better graphics and sound.

The pilots declared that they had heard a suspicious transmission upon takeoff.

The Luftwaffe also used the technique in order to help their small bombers, and the enormous Gigant, Messerschmitt Me 321 glider, conceived in 1940 for the invasion of Britain, and used to supply the Russian front which also had air tow assistance from up to three bombers, into the air with loads that would have made the takeoff run too long otherwise.

Meanwhile, Dwyer, owner of the plane and the flight service company, who had witnessed the takeoff, decided to establish radio contact, but all attempts were unsuccessful.

The race had been a particularly difficult one as one competitor, Cecil Allen, died in a fiery takeoff mishap and rival Jacqueline Cochran was forced to retire due to mechanical problems, the " blinding fog ", and violent thunderstorms that plagued the race.

* On 31 May 1934 an Air France aircraft carrying newspapers to Paris crashed after hitting the mast of an aircraft radio navigation beacon that had been erected off the end of the white-line takeoff path, killing the two crew.

The takeoff from Belgrade was delayed for an hour as United outside right Johnny Berry had lost his passport, then the plane made a planned stop in Munich to refuel, landing at 13: 15 GMT.

The Martin B-26 Marauder, Douglas B-18 Bolo and Douglas B-23 Dragon were also considered, but the B-26 had questionable takeoff characteristics from a carrier deck and the B-23's wingspan was nearly 50 % greater than the B-25's, reducing the number that could be taken aboard a carrier and posing risks to the ship's island ( superstructure ).

Imeson Field had to be replaced because of the advent of commercial jet travel and the longer takeoff runs required by jet airliners.

On January 8, 2003, Air Midwest had its first fatal accident when Air Midwest Flight 5481 operating as US Airways Express and departing out of Charlotte for Greenville-Spartanburg crashed 37 seconds after takeoff.

Authorities said Fidrych suffocated after his clothes had become entangled with a spinning power takeoff shaft on the truck he was working on.

The 3B had an unusual ( and noisy ) feature, a small fourth engine ( a Rolls-Royce RB162 ) in the base of the tailfin to increase power during takeoff.

As the German Luftwaffe was primarily tasked with supporting the ground forces of the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe never had a chance to develop a heavy bomber before the start of the war-its prime proponent of strategic bombing, General Walther Wever had lost his life in a 1936 takeoff accident, with only the troubled Heinkel He 177 design existing as a frontline heavy bomber during the war years, which was used for only minor actions against both the Soviet Union and England.

This was exceeded by 24 kg, but as there had been considerable fuel burnoff between startup and takeoff, the total aircraft weight ( including fuel ) was within the maximum permitted take-off weight.

The main disadvantage to using the takeoff dolly / trolley and landing skid ( s ) system on German World War II aircraft, was that aircraft would likely be scattered all over a military airfield after they had landed from a mission, and would be unable to taxi on their own to an appropriately hidden " dispersal " location, which could easily leave them vulnerable to being shot up by attacking Allied fighters.

The aircraft had engine trouble shortly after takeoff and Tomarken attempted to turn back to the airport before crashing into Santa Monica Bay.

About 25 minutes after takeoff, the aircraft disappeared from radar screens, suggesting it had experienced an in-flight breakup at FL350 ( approximately 35, 000 feet or 7 miles ) near the Penghu Islands in the Taiwan Strait ( co-ordinates 23. 98 ° N, 119. 67 ° E ).

In the autumn of 1941, Pokryshkin, flying a MiG-3 ( possibly winter-camouflaged ), took off in sleet and rain conditions after two other pilots had crashed on takeoff.

Five minutes before that decision, a Continental Airlines DC-10 departing for Newark, New Jersey, had lost a titanium alloy strip, long and about to wide, during takeoff from the same runway.

The two-seated PZL-104 Wilga 35A had been towing a pro-UKIP banner when it flipped over and crashed shortly after takeoff.

They also found that prior to takeoff the aircraft had not been de-iced.

The departure airport had only 1, 000 m ( 3, 280 ft ) of runway for takeoff, so two of the fuel tanks were left empty to reduce weight, giving an endurance of five hours for a 4. 33 hour journey.

The Boeing 737-222 had become bogged down by ice during a delay, and was unable to ascend after takeoff, quickly stalling and falling on the bridge before tipping over and slamming into the iced-over Potomac River, killing 73 passengers and crew and four in cars on the bridge.