Throughout the novel there are various terrorist tactics used to defeat the protagonists, including the mid-air explosion of an airship.

Anyone who might have miraculously lived through the mid-air explosion, investigators said, could have survived eight hours at most in the water, which is an average 65 degrees Fahrenheit.

Thirty-five Syracuse students died in the mid-air explosion on Dec. 21, 1988.

Sirens roared the alarm, and a mid-air explosion was seen overhead as the Patriot intercepted a missile.

But even if he hit them, the mid-air explosion would certainly damage Concorde 02.

President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan was killed in a plane crash caused by a mysterious mid-air explosion.

But we must act as if they intend to sabotage the test-flight - something wrong with one of the missiles, or with the cannon ... a mid-air explosion.

Initial suggestions of possible sabotage were advanced by the Ecuadorian civil aviation authorities after a radio station reported witnesses to a mid-air explosion.

This mid-air explosion causes the dispersion of the material over a large oval-shaped area.

A mid-air explosion and fire ensued, and both aircraft crashed into the lake.