It also found that the agency had not fully met three of the accident board's critical recommendations: calls for eliminating foam and ice debris during launching, toughening the orbiter's outer skin and developing techniques to repair a damaged craft while in orbit.
The man, in his 20s, clung to an overhanging tree when his damaged craft was in danger of carrying him to his death over a raging weir.
An owner of the Canadian company praised her pilot, Rudolfo De Castro, for bringing down his damaged craft safely in the parking lot of a theme park.
Within three hours of the detonation she returned to the harbor to assist in recovering beached and damaged craft and in gathering scientific information on underwater effects of the blast.
Marx thought of ramming her again, but his damaged craft only massed a few grams; the gesture would be futile.
Kholodov rammed the Bf 109-probably Beißwenger's-that was attacking his wingman, Leytenant Arkadiy Makarov, and managed to bail out of his own damaged craft before it crashed.
Lt. Kerry then directed his boat to return and assist the other damaged craft and towed the boat to safety.
DeVore was some pilot to have landed his damaged craft without destroying it But why here?
But the pilot was game to the finish, and managed in some wonderful fashion to swing his damaged craft around again, so that when it landed with a crash it fell bottom-down, and the motor did not come on top of him.
He was walking around looking at his damaged craft.