The Lusitania sank, flight MH370 vanished, and memory says it was Pan Am 103 that blew up over Lockerbie, rather than a 747 called Clipper Maid of the Seas.
The festivities that day included a feng-shui ritual in the lobby, a gesture of respect to the building's high proportion of Asian buyers, who regard a Trump property as a good place to sink flight capital.
A few days after Danny FII sank, Ethiopian Airlines flight ET409 crashed into the same sea.
Inflation has run in triple digits, farm production has sunk; airline flights shriveled from 35,000 in 1995 to just 5,700 in 1998; the percentage of paved roads is dropping.
That began to change with the erosion of urban centers across America in the late 70's, a phenomenon fueled by so-called white flight and a sinking national economy.
His suggestion that it's possible for a plane of that size to float for a while before sinking was proved by US Airways Flight 1549 that landed on the Hudson River in 2009, and remained above water for long enough for all 155 passengers and crew aboard to be evacuated.
With the weather going down and a sinking feeling that we'd miss our flight off the continent, I stopped writing and hunkered down for a few days of tent-bound living.
Angelo takes Derval's place on the flight, sabotaging the plane and sinking it near the Bahamas.
That sinking feeling drowned me Saturday night when my flight from West Palm Beach to JFK was delayed 8 hours; the original departure time 6 45pm, the revised one 2 45am.
She has a flight to catch to Los Angeles and, with a sinking feeling, I realise that I am the priority that is rapidly being reprioritised.
There is no sinking feeling quite like realising you are about to miss your connecting flight in an airport half a continent from your final destination.
