The men are either dead, in flight or in the fight.
Even after successful launchings, herders have found dead cows underneath flight paths, killed by eating grass that came into contact with jettisoned rocket stages contaminated with unburned heptyl.
This despite the fact that their bassist and chief songwriter, Charlie Pace, is missing, presumed dead, after Oceanic Flight 815 crashed somewhere in the Pacific.
On a dead-of-night flight from Des Moines to New Hampshire, Obama, his blue striped tie loosened, walked cautiously to the back of the plane and chatted with reporters.
More recently, there have been dramatic cases of passengers dropping dead once off the flight.
Keith Allen is lying prostrate on some flight cases, dead to the world.
Less than a week had passed since her brother, Tim-Tim to his kin and Drag to friends in the neighborhood, was shot dead while climbing a flight of stairs toward a rooftop in the Louis Armstrong Houses.
Within a few months of the start of the Bosnian war, by the end of 1992, Mladic's blitzkrieg had left tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims dead, put two million to flight, their homes looted and torched, their cemeteries and mosques bulldozed into oblivion.
At the same time, the latest radar and radio technology meant there were no "dead" areas over regular flight paths where contact with crews could be lost, a frequent occurrence into the mid-1950s.
One person is dead after a Southwest flight reportedly suffered a catastrophic engine explosion that broke a window on the plane, the National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed.
