Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stewardess Nancy Taylor, checking her passenger lists in the rear of the plane, heard an engine cough, begin to sputter, then die: "It made a terrible rumbling sound." The plane nosed downward. The radio at Newark Tower crackled out a message: "Is everything all right?" The pilot replied: "I lost an engine. Am coming back...
...Stewardess Taylor heard the pilot gunning the good engines: "We seemed to level off. Then, about a minute later, we started falling and I knew we were going to crash. I could hear screams and yells. Oh, how I prayed...
Stunned and blackened figures began staggering away from the DC-6's shattered fuselage, wandered into the street littered with bodies and bits of twisted metal. Stewardess Taylor was found hanging upside down, still strapped in her seat. "I'm so mixed up," she mumbled. "It's so terrible...
...stewardess was the only survivor of the crew of four. Amazingly, 36 of the 59 passengers got out alive. Four residents of the apartment house were killed. The Port of New York Authority closed down Newark Airport, one of the nation's busiest and best, to consider what fate and mechanical failures had done...
...researcher, his new boss (Jack Hawkins) orders the experiment speeded up, dispatches him to Labrador to look into the crash of one of the new planes. Widower Stewart says goodbye to his gravely precocious daughter (Janette Scott) and shambles aboard a Reindeer. The trip starts brightly enough; a pretty stewardess (Glynis Johns) pampers him, and Movie Star Dietrich dozes just across the aisle. Then he learns that the plane is just past its crucial point of strain...