Four enlisted men on board the Hornet were also killed, and 20 more sailors were wounded in this sad accident.
"Such sad accidents have happened many times before," said Pindes.
"It might have been a very sad accident."
I remember particularly because it was the day when that sad accident happened.
My sad accident was arranged- an explosion produced to cause my apparent death.
Such a sad accident, born of academic zeal (not to say hubris) and a pitiful lack of common sense.
We've paid very highly for this tour and it seems a pity to miss anything just because this very sad accident has happened.
You should telephone them at once in any case, to let them know of your father's sad accident.
"And those who die in these sad accidents are of course buried in the sandy waste out there."
So far as the authorities are concerned, it was a sad accident.