"Roll, roll, roll, roll, roll".
A winner of 12 medals at the X Games, Burnquist performs moves no one else dares try: he has rolled upside down through a Hot Wheels-style loop — backward.
Five miles above the Pacific Ocean, alone with a mechanical problem they could not counter or even completely diagnose, the crew of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 seemed to try everything to save their plane, even as it rolled upside down and rocked back and forth in the last moments of flight.
But most of the testimonials focused on what the two men did to try to save the airliner and its passengers, which investigators say involved meticulous by-the-book procedures, followed by valiant troubleshooting as the plane rolled upside down, then spiraled toward the sea.
Second, most of the baleen whale skeletons had been preserved "belly-up"—a position that suggests the creatures died at sea, rolled upside down as they decomposed, and then remained inverted when high tides or storm surges deposited them on shore.
The airplane rolled upside down, and one of the hijackers began shouting the takbir.
A recap: A Boeing 737 was put into a turn so steep the plane nearly rolled upside down.
Sometimes, if you roll it upside down, the stem will gently release from the branch.
The driver lost control of the bus after he swerved to avoid a pedicab, and it rolled, landing upside down in a canal with less than two feet of water.
More likely, they have said, such a pilot would try to roll the plane upside down.
