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Rubber Duck tells the convoy to disregard the toll as they head for the state border and continue east toward the New Jersey shore, crashing through the toll gate at 98 miles per hour (158 km/h), well above the national 55 mph limit in place at the time, in the process.
Questioned about the production of Convoy during an interview in July 1978, Peckinpah is quoted as saying: "In preparing Cross of Iron I kept hearing on Armed Forces radio this song about “We'll hit the gate goin' 98, Let them truckers roll, Ten-Four!” and I said “By God, I'd like to be out on that highway!” And so I got out there, but ...
On December 3, 1990, two Northwest Airlines jetliners collided at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Flight 1482, a scheduled Douglas DC-9-14 operating from Detroit to Pittsburgh International Airport, taxied by mistake onto an active runway in dense fog and was hit by a departing Boeing 727 operating as Flight 299 to Memphis International Airport.
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They improved again to set a time of 2:37:05 (2 hours, 37 minutes and 5 seconds), on October 12, 2008. [13] On July 30, 2005, Florine also completed a solo ascent of The Nose in just 11 hours and 41 minutes. [14] Solo ascents are characterized by climbing by yourself while using a rope for protection, and require one person to do all the work.
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The wrecked Renault R28 car driven by Nelson Piquet Jr. at the centre of the controversy. The Renault Formula One crash controversy, dubbed as "Crashgate" by some in the media, [1] [2] was a sporting scandal caused when Renault F1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crashed during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix to give a sporting advantage to his Renault teammate, Fernando Alonso.
Maus had logged 20,859 flight hours during his career, including 1,359 hours on the MD-82. [1]: 5 Other pilots who had flown with Maus described him as a "competent and capable pilot" who had a reputation for operating "by the book". [1]: 6 The flight's first officer was 35-year-old David J. Dodds, from Galena, Illinois. [7]