根据第二段第一句“Some of the worst such incidents—like four crashes in frightening succession into New York’s World Trade Center , the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania on September 11 , 2001 ; the 1988 downing of Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie , Scotland ; and a 1977 crash involving ...
It was not until 1931 however that the first recorded attempted hijacking of a commercial civilian airliner took place. It happened in Peru whilst the country was in the grip of revolutionary upheaval. American pilot Byron Rickard on his mail run flight for Pan-Am found his plane surrounded by...
Two years later, French autho rities blam e th e crash on equipment breakdown.1. Th e first paragraph is intended to A. memorizethosepeopleaboardtheRussianA321airl ine. B.showitisthemostseriousincidentinhistory. C.directattentiontosomedisastrousairplanecrashe S. D. analyz e th e caus e of...
As a recent history of that era notes: "The more than five thousand bank failures between the Crash and the New Deal's rescue operation in March 1933 wiped out some $7 billion in depositors' money. Accelerating foreclosures on defaulted home mortgages—150,000 homeowners lost their property in...