SEP Paper As soon as the breaking news came across the tv screen all of the eyes in the room turned toward my dad. His position was well known by those around us and I could see the questions forming on their lips. As I turned back to the screen I saw the big white letters ‘Missing Flight’ and could only imagine the variance of questions he would be asked in the coming days. My predictions would soon become a reality as everyone he talked to would find some way to bring it up. At last someone broke the silence, “What do you think happened?” As usual my dad would explain that he didn’t have enough data to make an observation, but they would push for an opinion anyway. Using the little information he had and taking a wild guess he said suicide, a logical conclusion when given only a few minutes to prepare. As the questions began to flow he answered them all effectively, leaving his listeners content with the response. It was only a matter of time though, before people started making their own theories with no back ground information. Finding a lost plane is a diverse process with many moving parts and once you get everyone to work together you still have a massive search area and many other roadblocks to get past. The Boeing 777 is a soundly built plane with only ten recorded accidents that was top of the line when it came out in 1993 and is still considered one of the best planes out there today. When it came out in 1993 it exceeded all expectations, weighing a full 5800 pounds less than its predecessor while still being the largest twin engine plane in the market. To add to its case it was also considered the most durable plane out there because of its predominantly alloy makeup(Brian Smith 41). Unfortunately enough, there is pre... ... middle of paper ... ...&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=10814821>. This is a very helpful source for learning more about the Boeing 777 and finding out it's general weaknesses. This can help confirm the possibility of malfunctions or even help figure out how it was kept of radar for 24 hours. Reading this gives me general knowledge about the lost airplane and can help narrow down the possible theories. Zelikow, Philip. The 9/11 Commission Report. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2002. Print. This book gives a good recap of how the planes were hijacked on 9/11. I can use this information in my paper as an example of the fate of Malaysian flight 370. It also helps explain motive for the hijacking which could help me narrow down the suspects on my list. This is the most well documented account of a hijacking and it can help me really go into detail about the fate of flight 370.
...ary knew about the crash and that they were going to transport the wreckage to another military base. Many eyewitness accounts with similar details eliminate the possibility of merely a single person making up the entire event. The government’s contradictory reports demonstrate that their knowledge of the incident is dynamic and dependent on how they want the people to react. This matter is important because it raises the possibility that if the government is hiding information from the public about a spacecraft accident, there may be other incidents where the government is concealing the truth from the public. Despite the government’s best attempts to cover up the Roswell incident, eyewitness accounts from the common person validate the idea that an unidentified flying object crashed in Roswell, New Mexico and eternally changed the lives of several people.
The Colgan Air Flight 3407 was a very interesting case to look at. On February 12, 2009, at 10:17 pm, flight 3407 crashed at a house in New York after the pilots experience a stall. Flight 3407 was scheduled to fly from Newark, New Jersey to Buffalo, New York. The NTSB reported the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) revealed some discrepancies both pilots were experience. The first officer did not have any experience with icing condition but icing was one of the reasons the plane went into a stall. On the other hand, the captain had some experience flying in icing condition. The captain was experiencing fatigue, which indeed, made him unfit to recover from a stall. With that in mind, the Human Factor Analysis Classification System (HFACS) will give insight of some errors both pilots made.
Although the flight was scheduled to depart from JFK Airport at about 7:00 p.m., it was delayed due to a disabled piece of ground equipment and concerns about a suspected passenger mismatch with baggage. The airplane took off at 8:18 p.m., shortly at 8:25 p.m., Boston air route traffic control center (ARTCC) instructed the pilots to climb and maintain an altitude of 19,000 feet and then lower down to 15,000 feet. However, at 8:26 p.m., Boston ARTCC amended TWA flight 800's altitude clearance, advising the pilots to maintain an altitude of 13,000 feet. At 8:29 p.m., the captain stated, "Look at that crazy fuel flow indicator there on number four... see that?" One minute later Boston ARTCC advised them to climb and maintain 15,000 feet to which the pilot replied: “Climb thrust”. After an extremely loud and quick sound, the cockpit voice recorder stopped recording at 8:31 p.m. At that moment, the crew of an Eastwind Airlines Boeing 737 flying nearby reported an explosion in the sky. TWA Flight 800 aircraft had broken up and crashed into the sea, 8 miles south of East Moriches, killing all on board. (1,2)
Finally, in 1997, the US military admitted to lying about the object being a weather balloon. Instead they claim that the wreckage was part of a “top-secret experiment”(Mitton 11) involving some sort of balloon. Steve MacKenzie’s response, “if the object he tracked had been a weather balloon, secret or not, his superiors would have ordered him to ignore it.”(Dudley 35)
One of the disappearances involves Flight 19. “Five Avenger torpedo bombers lifted into the air from the Naval Air Station at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at 2:10 in the afternoon” (“The Mystery”). The goal of the flight was to practice bomb runs and did not seem to be unusual. The pilots consisted of all students except for one commander whose name was Lt. Charles Taylor. However, the Charles Taylor was not familiar with the area around which they were flying. Taylor then became frustrated and confused which caused them to end up miles of course (“The Mystery”). Pilot experience when flying is important and could be the reason why a flight makes it to its destination or does not. Another disappearance involves the loss of NC16002. “NC16002 was a DC-3 passenger plane that vanished on the night of December 28, 1948, during a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami, Florida” (“The Mystery”). “Investigators focused on the fact that Huber wasn’t licensed to fly in the dark, using only instruments, and that the plane had taken off from the Bahamas before sunrise” (MacGregor 38). Pilot experience and training can be seen as the reason why these flights never made it to where they were supposed to go which is explanation as to why the planes
Travelling at a speed twice that of sound might seem to be something futuristic; however, this feat has already been achieved almost 40 years ago by the world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft-The Concorde. Concorde brought a revolution in the aviation industry by operating transatlantic flights in less than four hours. The slick and elegant aircraft with one of the most sophisticated engineering was one of the most coveted aircrafts of its time. However, this was all destined to end when Air France Flight 4590 was involved in a tragic disaster just outside the city of Paris on July 25, 2000. The crash killed 113 people, but more disastrous was its impact. The belief and confidence people had with Concorde gradually started to fade, and finally Concorde was grounded after two and a half years of the crash. Official reports state that the main cause of the crash was a piece of metal dropped by a Continental aircraft that flew moments before Concorde, but, over the last decade, the report has met a lot of criticism, and many alternative hypotheses have thus been proposed.
On 24th November 2001, Crossair flight 3597 departed in the dark from runway 26L from Berlin – Tegel Airport at 20:01 UTC to Zurich Airport. 24 out of 33 people on board are killed. During the flight, the visibility was low due to overcast with light snowfall. It was further reported by the previous aircraft that the runway can only be seen from 1.3 miles. However, the commander did not find it serious, and continued with the approach.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner: a timeline of problems - Telegraph. 2014. Boeing 787 Dreamliner: a timeline of problems - Telegraph. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/10207415/Boeing-787-Dreamliner-a-timeline-of-problems.html. [Accessed 27 March 2014].
The official story of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory in that the government claims 19 hijackers conspired together to hijack four planes and create terror in the world. Four American airplanes were hijacked; two were driven into the World Trade Centers and the third airplane into the Pentagon. The fourth airplane suspected target was the White House, but it was diverted by the brave men and women aboard that hijacked airplane, and crashed the airline jet before it could reach its target. It was like time stood still as America watched through television broadcast these unbelievable and horrifying events taking place. The reports told of the smell the jet fuel, burning flesh, and people jumping out windows to their death to escape the flames. When the two bravura structures tumbling down, rescuers, (police officers, firefighters, and ambulance drivers and techs) were caught in the mast and lost their lives doing their job trying to save lives.
The Boeing 737 is one of the most popular aircraft ever produced. Over 7700 in all variants have been produced, with an additional 11,275 aircraft on order. This makes the 737 the most popular jetliner to date. The 737 has a wide variety of uses, and still remains extremely popular and under high demand. Because it is such a widely mass produced aircraft, it is also a target for constant aerodynamic improvements. Boeing has looked at everything from the design of the anti-collision lights, to the reduction of small gaps in the airfoil. This has created an aircraft that is extremely aerodynamic and efficient at any task it performs.
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...thin minutes and took the film.” There was barely any debris from the plane. The government stated that all the planes that were hijacked were the same. The engine of the plane that was found at the scene of the Pentagon attack didn't have the same engine as the other planes, with that being said, it could have been a smaller plane since it was a smaller building. There were no aircraft wreckage, wings, tails, luggage, seats, and bodies. The plane that appears to be flown into the Pentagon was said to be Flight 77 especially from the size of it. Flight 77 can be remote-controlled whether with or without guidance. The transponders for all of the planes were turned off. The way the plane made its exit was a perfect circle but that circle didn't match the plane that the American government claimed it to be. The Pentagon also seemed to be rigged with explosives as well.
On January 13, 1982 an Air Florida 737 crashed into the Potomac River in Washington D.C. when the crew forgot to turn on ...
The 777 would be manufactured differently than previous Boeing aircraft. Various efforts would be undertaken to increase demand and reduce manufacturing costs of the 777 in an attempt to create positive cash flows sooner. To increase demand, the 777 would be the first fly-by-wire Boeing aircraft, a feature Boeing’s competitors already added to their aircraft. Boeing also made an effort to get their large customers involved in the design process from the beginning in an effort to increase its competitive advantage and long-term demand for the 777. As a cost saving measure, the design and manufacturing teams would work together to create a detailed simulation of the manufacturing process that would reduce the cost of “improvements” that were often made during manufacturing thereby reducing the overall manufacturing cost. Furthermore, Boeing would invest in more training for its engineers on the new CAD system. This new manufacturing process would lead to large capital outflows in the short-run. The challenge for Mr. Shrontz is determining whether these capital investments will lead to an increased return on equity for Boeing.
On November 3 1945, the Bermuda triangle first grasped the attention of many people with one mysterious event. Flight 19, an aircraft which was out on a 3 hour training session, fully fueled and equipped with five highly experienced aviators, went missing and was never to be heard of again (McDonell1of 9). The three hour training session started from Fort Lauderdale, Florida and was due 150 miles east, 40 miles north and then was told to return to the base; unfortunately that did not happen (McDonell 1 of 9). During the training session the aviators both back up compass and compass were malfunctioning making their locations a mystery to them and lost to the world for two hours. During these two hours radios on ...