One hundred and thirty-one passengers aboard a US Air flight died in the worst air crash to occur in the past three years. The plane departing from Chicago, struck down just outside of Pittsburgh yesterday, as it prepared to land.
All 131 passengers aboard a US Air flight died yesterday when the jet crashed outside of Pittsburgh yesterday while preparing to land. It's the worst U.S. air disaster in three years.
You were right, AP style-wise, to write out the number as the first word of a sentence. But it's a big enough number to be a little hard to read, so I'd just stick the word "all" in at the start of the sentence and use the numerals.
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This is pretty close. How about:
All 131 passengers aboard a US Air flight died yesterday when the jet crashed outside of Pittsburgh yesterday while preparing to land. It's the worst U.S. air disaster in three years.
You were right, AP style-wise, to write out the number as the first word of a sentence. But it's a big enough number to be a little hard to read, so I'd just stick the word "all" in at the start of the sentence and use the numerals.
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