Sentence examples for catastrophic crash from inspiring English sources

It helped in 2008, when a headlong economic boom turned into a catastrophic crash.

Pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger has told government investigators he glided the plane into the river rather than risking a catastrophic crash in a densely populated area.

Merlin was fined a record £5m by a court on Tuesday for the "catastrophic" crash on the Smiler ride on 2 June 2015.

Dealers are now waiting anxiously to see whether the new monetary strategy of the world's eighth largest economy can survive fresh speculative attacks and avert a potentially catastrophic crash that analysts fear could plunge the globe into recession.

President Vladimir V. Putin sharply criticized his military commanders today, bluntly blaming dereliction of duty for the catastrophic crash of an overloaded transport helicopter on Monday near the main military base in Chechnya.

But the political and media clamour for cuts and the elevation of government borrowing and spending – which has saved the economy from a far more catastrophic crash – to the greatest threat facing the nation is far more dangerous.

Hijackings and catastrophic crashes.

Why? A. We've engineered away what used to be the most common causes of catastrophic crashes.

For example, they show injury rates in a broader range of real-world crashes, including low-severity crashes, than might be available from other sources that tend to focus on vehicle performance in catastrophic crashes.

As an IndyCar Series investigation continued into Dan Wheldon's fatal accident Oct. 16 at Las Vegas, series officials met for three hours Monday with about two dozen drivers in Indianapolis to discuss ways to avoid catastrophic crashes.

Aviation endured, punctuated by occasional catastrophic crashes that have, in the end, made flying much safer, especially in the United States, where the airlines carry some two million people a day on tens of thousands of flights.