1.   As in the earlier crash, the car, which was moving at a high rate of speed before the crackup.

2.   Asked whether the new owner was notified that the jet had been in an earlier crash, Dziuban declined to comment.

3.   At this stage they can only draw on the experience of earlier crashes to guess at probabilities.

4.   After earlier crashes and fatalities, NASCAR did its own in-house investigations.

5.   Despite its earlier crashes, officials of Phoenix Air say the company has an excellent safety record.

6.   He said that he had asked Learjet, one of companies assisting in the investigation, to provide details on the earlier crashes.

7.   Moreover, the Federal Aviation Administration stepped up its surveillance of U.S. Air operations after the earlier crashes, and has pronounced those operations satisfactory.

8.   Preliminary findings in the three earlier crashes suggest quite different causes.

9.   The air crews perished in the earlier crashes, according to summary board reports obtained by The San Francisco Chronicle.

10.   The earlier crash on Mount Hood occurred as an Air Force Reserve helicopter was trying to help climbers who had fallen into a crevasse.