Cadillac not only knew of him, he had witnessed his fiery descent from the sky.

At this point investigators have no firm idea exactly what sent the plane plunging in a fiery descent into the waters off Long Island, taking 230 lives.

There is no blessed ascent at the end, nor any fiery descent (though a momentary conflagration was introduced here).

Perhaps the most intriguing finding was that organic material in the meteors might not be burned up during the fiery descent.

From the balcony's high parapet one could look to the west and the fiery descent of the setting sun.

Commentators used Mir's fiery descent as a metaphor for Russia's fall.

Any debris that survived Saturday's fiery descent would have plunged into open water, the US space agency says.

This relatively dense air creates greater friction with space debris, dragging it down until it is destroyed in a fiery descent to Earth.

In the light of urgently cast palm beams, Beverly could see the damage the ship had taken in her fiery descent and hard landing.

She had invited herself and scrambled aboard when everyone else was preoccupied with the Moby's fiery descent into Blowhole.