The rocket span out of control and had to be ordered to blow itself up.An investigation concluded that data from computer simulations and wind-tunnel tests had been misinterpreted.
The Sikh rebel Banda Singh Bahadur was finally vanquished in 1716 by the emperor Farrukhsiyar, and after his execution, Banda's son was ordered to be "blown to bits by a cannon".
Swellings, who delivered the blow that killed Newlove, was ordered to serve a minimum of 17 years, Sorton and Cunliffe, 15 and 12 years respectively.
Bugler Hawthorne accompanied a party of engineers, led by Lieutenants Home and Salkeld of the Bengal Engineers, who had been ordered to lay a charge and blow the Kashmir Gate, so that entry to the city might be obtained.
By Janet Flanner and Harold Ross The New Yorker, November 19 , 1932P. 9 At the christening and launching of the new French liner, S.S. Normandie, a double jeroboan (or eight-bottle bottle known as a nebuchadnezzar in wine circles) was ordered blown and filled with champagne for the occasion.
During the second world war there was an order to blow the pier up – apparently in a bid to stop the enemy using it in a potential invasion – but it was spared.
He has reconstructed, from photographs, the blown-up room where plotters failed to kill Hitler, and the studio of an artist whom Baader-Meinhof terrorists assaulted during the 1970's in order to blow up the house of a prosecutor who lived next door.
He tried to run it off but after suffering a second blow was ordered off by the Wales physiotherapist, Mark Davies, under protest.
Unless the seating arrangements were a proxy for what order to blow themselves up in, I'm not sure that ignoring the safety briefing merited such alarm.
