Although this was certainly not the first or only owl to camp at the airport, someone had noticed it and was concerned that it could be sucked into a jet engine, causing an accident.
A police helicopter which crashed into a busy Glasgow pub killing 10 people suffered a double engine failure, air accident investigators have found.
However, our study clearly shows that the use of an engine influences the accident dynamics.
Just as the internal combustion engine begat highway accidents and auto theft, many of the most visible and transformative successes of computing technology — e-mail, databases, e-commerce, the Web and so on — have ushered in whole new classes of abuse.
The engine caused 43 accidents (11.2%) in our study and was responsible for the majority of injuries to the upper limbs.
For Wallace, the 1989 Winston Cup champion, it was the third week in a row he was knocked out because of an accident or engine trouble.
Tensions explode into a fistfight in the engine cab, causing an accident in which Jack is left blinded and Bill burdened with unbearable guilt.
The San Francisco accident and Engine 3 notwithstanding, crashes at airports are still so rare that firefighters say they try to prepare themselves for the real thing by watching crash videos on YouTube.
In his report, Bob Bell later suggested that the judge might have been actually handling petrol at the time and then ignited the vapour with a spark from the mower engine or with "an accident involving some other item within the shed".
The MD-80 family of planes – built by McDonnell Douglas, now part of Boeing – had been in "one or two nasty accidents" involving engine problems, he said.
A fire engine en route to the accident crashed an hour later, injuring the driver.
