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The explosion blows four passengers, all Americans and one of them a nine-month-old baby, out of the plane and they fall to their deaths ; the rapid decompression of the cabin that follows injures seven other passengers, and the aircraft makes an emergency landing.
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The explosion blows a small ball upwards and blocks the coned hole at the top of the tube and so prevents any rush of gas.
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* December 8 – Lightning strikes the Pan American World Airways Boeing 707-121 Clipper Tradewind, operating as Flight 214, igniting fuel vapor and causing an explosion which blows part of the left wing off the aircraft.
The resulting explosion blows her off of her seat and enrages Skinner.
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An explosion on the US Navy aircraft carrier Lexington, damaged by a Japanese carrier air attack on 8 May, blows an aircraft off the deck into the sea.
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A failure of fire tubes forces large volumes of high pressure, high temperature steam back down the fire tubes in a fraction of a second and often blows the burners off the front of the boiler, whereas a failure of the pressure vessel surrounding the water would lead to a full and entire evacuation of the boiler's contents in a large steam explosion.
The conical shape of the filler concentrates the force of the explosion into a hot jet that blows its way through the armor.
The explosion destroyed a vehicle parked across the street, and causes significant damage to the 11-story Turkish Center, and blows out the windows of nearby buildings, including B ' nai B ' rith, Chase Manhattan Bank, the African American Center, a travel agency and numerous apartment complexes.
The resulting explosion blows Carl into a supermarket, where he finds that the flesh of his hands and face have been torn away, revealing robotic parts like those of the old woman.
And just before he is defeated, Rhino charges at Spider-Man one last time, escapes the laser field but accidentally rams into a gas station that blows up and knocks him several blocks away from the explosion, where Doc Ock takes his unconscious form.
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Graph theory also enjoyed an explosion of interest at the same time, especially in connection with the four color problem.
Of the four hostages in the eastern helicopter, only Ze ' ev Friedman's body was relatively intact ; he had been blown clear of the helicopter by the explosion.
Radtchenko informs them that if the reactor temperature exceeds 1000 ° Celsius it will result in a thermonuclear explosion and may trigger the detonation of the submarine's nuclear warheads as well, and they estimate that they have three to four hours before this happens.
* In December 1991, an electrical explosion caused dioxins ( created from the oxidation of polychlorinated biphenyl ) to spread through four residence halls and two other buildings on the college campus of SUNY New Paltz.
September 1982 saw a low point for UNTSO with the deaths of four of its unarmed officer observers in a landmine explosion just outside Beirut shortly after the infamous Sabra and Shatila massacre.
There is an explosion and then we see all four afloat a pile of wreckage.
After the DOS-2 failure, the USSR attempted to launch four more Salyut-class stations through 1975, with another failure due to an explosion of the final rocket stage, which punctured the station with shrapnel so that it wouldn't hold pressure.
The population explosion is evident in a 2007 Forbes study which ranked four of Maricopa County's municipalities in the top ten fastest-growing cities in the nation.
Since the four lane expansion of Highway 64 in the early 1990s western Fayette County has seen a population explosion.
On 28-Mar-1956 a Boeing B-47B-35-BW Stratojet, 51-2175, of the 3520th FTW suffered explosion in bomb bay fuel tank and sheds its wings over East Wichita crashing four miles ( 6 km ) NE of the city, killing three crew.
An explosion and partial roof collapse of a ConAgra Foods plant on June 9, 2009, killed four and injured some 40 workers.
" The evening when he walks off with some money from a prostitute's flat is when an explosion at a pub in Guildford kills five people ( four soldiers and a civilian ) and wounds 75.
By about the 15th century BC a massive volcanic explosion known as the Minoan eruption blew the island of Thera apart, casting more than four times the amount of ejecta as the explosion of Krakatoa and generating a tsunami in the enclosed Aegean that threw pumice up to 250 meters above sea level onto the slopes of Anaphi, 27 km to the east.
The fire led to an enormous explosion which killed 23 people ( including four firemen ) and injured 947.
in 1999, such an explosion lead to four deaths at the Avon Refinery in Martinez, California.
It is thought that one of the rocket's four motors caught fire ; the subsequent explosion destroyed the rocket, its cargo of two satellites, and the launch-pad, as well as the deaths of many of Brazil's space-specialists, causing an estimated US $ worth of damage.
* June 23, 1985 a piece of luggage that had come from CP Air 3 exploded as it was being transferred to Air India Flight 301 ; the explosion killed two baggage handlers ( Hideo Asano and Hideharu Koda ) in Narita and injured four other people.
The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turning point in the U. S. 1960s Civil Rights Movement and contributed to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
This decreases the material's volume and thus increases its density by a factor of two to four, causing it to " go critical " and create a nuclear explosion.
The four years following the explosion were unusually cold, and the winter of 1887 to 1888 included powerful blizzards.
On 27 March 2003, an explosion at the dynamite factory killed four people.
At first the grenade was fitted with a seven-second fuse, but during combat in the Battle of France in 1940 this delay proved too long — giving defenders time to escape the explosion, or even to throw the grenade back — and was reduced to four seconds.
The FAA has stated that there have been four fuel tank explosions in the previous 16 years — two on the ground, and two in the air — and that based on this statistic and on the FAA's estimate that one such explosion would happen every 60 million hours of flight time, about 9 such explosions will probably occur in the next 50 years.
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* 1970 – Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zürich, Switzerland.
An explosion midflight over the Sahara Desert in Niger caused the aircraft to break up, killing all 156 passengers and 15 crew members, including the U. S. Ambassador to Chad Robert Pugh.
The explosion damaged the bus doors, trapping the passengers inside.
Reports from passengers tended to confirm the idea that some sort of antimissile defence system had been deployed ; eyewitnesses reported seeing a small explosion above one of the plane's wings, suggesting that decoy flares had been fired.
* On 3 March 2001 – Thai Airways International Flight 114, a Thai Airways International Boeing 737-400 ( HS-TDC ), bound for Chiang Mai from Bangkok, was destroyed by an explosion and fire that occurred about 35 minutes before the Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and about 150 other passengers were to board.
The enormous explosion flung some of the passengers on deck into the water, and destroyed a large section of the ship.
* October 29-An explosion kills Doukhobor leader Peter Verigin and eight other passengers on a CPR train from Brilliant to Grand Forks, British Columbia.
The railway mobilized repair crews from across Eastern Canada to clear debris with remarkable speed and resumed its full schedule five days after the explosion, albeit it with diminished passengers cars as many were severely damaged.
The explosion came two days after Vladimir Putin won reelection and several weeks after a suicide bombing killed 41 Moscow subway passengers.
As explosives were detonated to attempt to blow a hole on the top of the airframe, the explosion ripped through the cabin area, immediately killing 20 passengers.
Most of the militants and bus passengers were killed in the fighting and explosion, including one Israeli policeman.
After a terrible spell of storm, the passengers were alarmed to hear the clanking of swords and the explosion of firearms.
While autopsies of the crew and remaining passengers showed that all had died due to crash forces, Frank's autopsy showed that he had been fatally injured by a dynamite explosion originating either in his lap or ( more likely ) immediately under his seat.
Reports that passengers on a train hit by an explosion attempted to break windows with umbrellas in order to escape.
Officials with the railway police force state that the explosion, which occurred after passengers were told to flee by the rebels, completely destroyed the station's waiting room, ticket office and a newly built structure adjacent to the station.
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