1.   Nigerian military officials were quoted as saying, however, that the latest crash had taken a big lump out of the middle of the armed forces.

2.   Although the crash took place on Spanish territory, the United States lent a hand because Pan Am, an American carrier, was involved.

3.   A day earlier, a car crash almost took his life.

4.   A late-race crash took out about half the field when Kevin Harvick and Jeff Gordon tangled.

5.   Car crashes take a lot of people, too.

6.   Crashes took out other top contenders, including the pole sitter, Scott Pruett.

7.   First Lt. Russell Robbins was in Vietnam only seven weeks before a helicopter crash took his life.

8.   He survived the first two rounds of competition only because crashes took out other, faster skaters.

9.   In the prologue, an entire plane crash takes all of four sentences to describe.

10.   The crash took place about four miles from Charles de Gaulle International Airport.