They bolted to the back room, where King's daughter Yolanda was sleeping, just as the dynamite exploded, ripping a hole in the porch floor, shattering four windows, and damaging a porch column.
In the fifth hour of the mission, a Vietcong mortar hit the plane's right wing and exploded, opening a hole two feet in diameter and sending shrapnel through the aircraft's skin.
Then the bomb exploded, blowing a hole in the ceiling, ripping off doors and sending passengers fleeing in panic.
Tammy Jo Shults, the pilot who landed a Southwest Airlines plane last month after one of its engines exploded and blew a hole in the cabin, has been widely hailed as a hero for her calm nerves and steady leadership during the harrowing midflight ordeal.
About a half hour after the hit, the magazine exploded and blew a hole in the ship's bottom that caused her to sink 45 minutes later in the shallow water.
Things got more interesting, however, in 1974 when Stephen Hawking, the British cosmologist, stunned the world by showing that when the paradoxical quantum laws that describe subatomic behavior were taken into account, black holes would leak particles and radiation, and in fact eventually explode, although for a hole the mass of a star it would take longer than the age of the universe.
In the moments before it exploded, tearing a ragged hole in the destroyer Cole moored in Yemen, a white motorized skiff circled around the ship's bow and slowly skirted along its portside.
ON Aug. 26, 1966, Philip Van Cott's Marine unit was ambushed in the jungles of Vietnam, a trip wire went off, a bomb exploded and shrapnel pierced a hole in his right hand.
SYDNEY, Australia — Australian investigators confirmed Friday that an exploding oxygen cylinder blew a hole in the side of a Qantas airliner last month, but they are still unsure why it exploded.
This was a technical feat because the spider's body is pressurised like an inflated tyre, meaning that previous attempts to record from their brains typically caused the spider to explode as soon as a hole was drilled in the outer shell.
