You may, understandably, feel that this rate skates over the frightening point that such events are so calamitous that everybody aboard dies – but in fact, contrary to that common belief, about 96 per cent of passengers involved in accidents survive to tell the tale.
Here, threads of fantasy are woven into the facts to describe the colourful and calamitous reign of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
It was an accidental blaze that nevertheless seemed emblematic -- the hot breath of history pursuing these books to their new home -- though in fact the outcome was the opposite of those calamitous European conflagrations.
At a news conference yesterday, Mrs. Clinton, struggling to overcome what she acknowledged was an calamitous Senate debut, did not defend her husband and, in fact, put the burden on him by telling reporters to direct their questions to him or his staff.
Mr. Gros and other Europeans take comfort in the fact that the rising euro has not had the calamitous effect on exports that many predicted.
The fact that globalisation is advancing again after such a calamitous crisis is encouraging, but further reversals are perfectly possible.*Studies cited in this article "Global Connectedness Index", DHL, 2014 "Global flows in a Digital Age", McKinsey Global Institute, 2014.
Caroline Abrahams, Age UK's charity director, said its analysis "lays bare the fact that our state-funded social care system is in calamitous, quite rapid decline.
He added in the statement, "Before something calamitous occurs, Congress must demand professional oversight to give us the straight facts about these companies' books".
Dara Ó Briain As the world contemplates the calamitous prospect of Donald Trump unravelling the landmark Paris climate agreement, we should take comfort in the fact that another international accord has begun remedying one of our biggest environmental messes.
In fact, annual arrivals from all quarters have slumped from an already meagre 100,000 to a calamitous 30,000 as travellers flee the perceived possibility of kidnappings and worse.
