So I drove around the corner to the trailhead of the logging road that led back to the crash site.
Instead, the man and woman in the truck wanted to know where the crash site was and whether would I show them.
There is the smell here of an indecent rush for scapegoats, even before we know what really caused this crash.
These days weather should never cause a commercial airliner to crash.
This immediately raises the issue of who will lead the crash investigation.
The sea is sleeping sapphire that wakes to cream and crash upon the beach.
It fell slowly, with a crash that was like a faint echo of the explosion.
The reply came with a soft distinctness that was like a crash of destiny.
To use the one rein meant a crash into the rail, and surely death.
It hung for a moment and then fell into the boat below with a crash.
c.1400, crasschen "break in pieces;" with no identifiable ancestors or relatives it probably is imitative. Computing sense is 1973, which makes it one of the earliest computer jargon words. Meaning "break into a party, etc." is 1922. Slang meaning "to sleep" dates from 1943; especially from 1965. Related: Crashed; crashing.
1570s, from crash (v.); sense of "financial collapse" is from 1817, "collision" is from 1910; references to falling of airplanes are from World War I.
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