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jberryhill

(62,444 posts) Sun Dec 25, 2016, 04:39 PM Dec 2016

To "auger in", defined by Merriam Webster...

aviation informal
: to crash catastrophically <Kinch went into a tumble during his record flight and came out of it at low altitude, as Yeager had done. That was just twenty days before Mel Apt augered in. — Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff, 1979> <The plane flipped upside down and augered in, killing him. — Dan McKinnon, Rescue Pilot, 2002>

Hence the current usage in its noun form, an "in augeration"