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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
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, the name a flying garden,

As disasters go, this one was terrible but not unique, certainly not among the worst on the roster of U.S. air crashes. There was the unusual element of the bridge, of course, and the fact that the plane clipped it at a moment of high traffic, one routine thus intersecting another and disrupting both. Then, too, there was the location of the event. Washington, the city of form and regulations, turned chaotic, deregulated, by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. The jets from Washington National Airport that normally swoop around the presidential monuments like famished gulls were, for the moment, emblemized by the one that fell; so there was that detail. And there was the aesthetic clash as well—blue-and-green Air Florida, the name a flying garden, sunk down among gray chunks in a black river. All that was worth noticing, to be sure. Still, there was nothing very special in any of it, except death, which, while always special, does not necessarily bring millions to tears or to attention. Why, then, the shock here?

I'd like to know why there isn't "of" before "a flying garden."
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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blue-and-green Air Florida, the name [being] a flying garden, sunk down among gray chunks in a black river.

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park sang joonI'd like to know why there isn't "of" before "a flying garden."
It is a verbless clause:

...blue-and-green Air Florida, the name [being] a flying garden, sunk down among gray chunks in a black river.
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I suppose it has been omitted unintentionally, by accident. It really should be there, as you say.

By the way, I remember this Air Florida crash very well. The plane crashed because its wings had not been de-iced, a very elementary failure. Air Florida pilots were not used to flying in icy conditions and had little understanding of what five millimetres of ice on a wing can do.

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Cool BreezeI suppose it has been omitted unintentionally, by accident. It really should be there, as you say.
I hope you have rethought this, CB. The structure is quite common.
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Mister MicawberI hope you have rethought this, CB.
I tried to rethink it as fast as I could, but you beat me again, Mr M.
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Well, I'm impressed that you remember the crash—there have been so many lately.
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Mister MicawberWell, I'm impressed that you remember the crash—there have been so many lately.
It happened in 1982. The reason I remember it is because it happened due to willful negligence. Another somewhat similar disaster took place in 1979 in Chicago when an American Airlines DC-10 crashed immediately after takeoff. One of its engines tore off because the

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