The phrase "airplane disaster" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an incident involving an aircraft that results in significant damage or loss of life.
Example: "The news reported on the airplane disaster that occurred last night, leaving many families in mourning."
Alternatives: "plane crash" or "aviation accident".
I thought the last thing I needed to do is see a realistically staged airplane disaster.
In airplane disaster films and the movies that spoof them, the jet always lands safely.
"LAST FLIGHT TO ABUJA", a Nigerian film about an airplane disaster, had an eerie sense of timing.
That prototypical airplane disaster movie featured a cast that included Wayne, Robert Stack, Claire Trevor, and Jan Sterling.
Sudden illness, violent crime, an airplane disaster, epidemic, terrorism, tsunami, earthquake are all possible (though statistically unlikely) as business travel spans ever-wider areas of the globe.
Any suggestion -- even a subliminal one -- that this airplane disaster was a continuation of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 could seem premature.
No doubt empathic identification has a lot to do with Scarry's current project: airplane disasters, her boldest extraliterary endeavor yet.
Lawyers who specialize in airplane disasters -- like Lee Kreindler, who says that the tort system would pay twice what the special master is paying -- are also out front in this fight.
At a recent editorial meeting, a proposal to follow up on a New Yorker article about Asperger's syndrome veered into a discussion about hypochondria inspired by online medical sites and then to Mr. Martinez's fascination with a Web site on airplane disasters.
A number of senior network executives said the success of the two specials last week advanced a growing conclusion that the audiences, consumed for two months by sobering, and at times alarming, news of terrorist mass murder, anthrax and airplane disasters were hungry for the most basic kind of diversion.
One of Malaysia's earliest airplane disasters was in 1976, when a plane carrying eight high-ranking government officials from the Malaysian state of Sabah were killed along with the pilot and crew when their plane crashed.
