One can get into a coffin not just on the ground but also while flying. If a passenger jet flies too high, it reaches a point called ‘Coffin Corner’ aka the Q corner. It is a term used to describe a ...

As a freshman delegate in 1978, Ken Plum was assigned a desk in the far corner on the Democratic side of the House of Delegates — seat 17. It wasn’t the best vantage point in the House because about a ...

MODERN airliners are are not supposed to fall out of the sky. Especially if they are highly automated, fly-by-wire passenger jets such as the Airbus 330. Like the ...

Answer: Coffin corner is a term used to describe a condition at high altitude when the maximum speed (limited by the spreading of supersonic shock waves) and the minimum (limited by amount of air ...

Oxnard, Calif. -- There was a time in the NFL when teams lived in dread of a wonderful moniker, if a sometimes iffy play: the coffin corner. The punt bounding down near the sideline, heading out of ...

One question rises above all others when Chicago's Devin Hester returns a punt for a touchdown: Why would anyone punt to the NFL's most dynamic return specialist? A sight NFL punters dread: Chicago's ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS – It’s a bone-chilling mystery ...

Farmer: First, an explanation of the term coffin corner: It used to be that punters operating from the opponent’s side of the 50-yard line would try to send low-trajectory punts directly out of bounds ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Modern financial markets increasingly operate at what aviators term “coffin corner”, flying at the edge of ...

Tampa Bay Buccaneers punter Jake Camarda's 55-yard coffin-corner punt pins Carolina Panthers inside the 10-yard line. Watch the best plays from Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen's two-touchdown ...