1.0 Introduction On July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines flight 800, A Boeing 747-100, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near New York 12 minutes after its departure. All 230 people on board died. 1.1 Accident Timeline 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
Engineering Disaster of TWA Flight 800 TABLE OF CONTENT SUMMARY I 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 2.0 BACKGROUND 1 2.1 FLIGHT PATH 1 2.2 NTSB INVESTIGATION 1 2.3 SEQUENCE OF BRAKEUP 2 3.0 SOURCES OF IGNITION 3 3.1 JET FUEL FLAMMABILITY 4 3.1.1 FUEL CHARACTERISTICS 4 3.1.2 FUEL FLAMMABILITY IN TWA 800 4 3.2 ELECTRICAL COMPONENT FAILURES 5 4.0 SOLUTIONS 6 4.1 NITROGEN INERTING 6 4.1.1 C-17 OBIGGS NITROGEN INERTING SYSTEM 6 4.2 SAFETY FOAM 7 4.3 JET FUEL ALTERNATIVE 7 4.4 VENTED AIR
reading a historical document such as the 800 c. inventory of Charlemagne’s estate of Asnapium offers the reader an insight into the time, through what they did or didn’t include in the document. There is not much known about Charlemagne’s estate of Asnapium, we do not know when it was built, how often Charlemagne visited this estate, or even its location. What can be speculated at however is the time of year that the inventory likely took place during the year 800, seeing as animals were listed with their
Doing Business between Two States: Order & Chaos Starting from ancient Babylon to todays’ Boston, we can see human created group, team, and community to survive or achieve a common goal. Every group, team, organization or community always strived for order in their eco system. Most of the human activities across the civilization and over the time have been spent to make rules, trying to find pattern, train people to follow discipline to create order. Instead of these cumulative mammoth efforts, it’s
Theorist still have their heads spinning around on how Trans World Airlines Flight 800 crashes. The two major theories that most theorist are arguing is that it was a missile that took down the plane or an explosion in the center fuel tank. TWA Flight 800’s catastrophic crash is still a mystery to this day. There many theories however, the one that sticks out the most with the majority of the evidence is an explosion in the center fuel tank. Can this beat the theory that two hundred fifty witnesses
This statistic is also reported by the World Health Organization, which says if boosting breastfeeding globally, more than 800,000 children’s life could be save yearly (“Increasing breastfeeding could save 800 000 children and US$ 300 billion every year,” n.d.). Moreover, she says breastfeeding contributes to improve the economy in the world as it enhanced mental development, which allows children to obtain greater educational attainments resulting in a better
The Red Umbrella, by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” by Eli Sastow both show the subject of immigration, and how it affects families lifestyle and relationships. The author of these two texts use similar and different techniques to show immigration, and how the feelings of this affects the family. The Red Umbrella, and “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” both have similar techniques showing immigration and how the feelings of the reading affects the family and the situation
Johnny Walker Sera walked into Circle K on fifth st. without noticing it had not been remodeled since 1986, and that someone from another, more financially kept city might actually find the convenience store to be disgusting, the dirt being so thick on the windows that you could only see blurry faces on the inside. Inside she saw five people in the store and believed that all of them were staring at her, looking through her like they knew more about herself than she did. The clerk, she thought
Mass media an effective tool when it comes to the social aspects of life, and help convey messages that have an impact on society. Companies use the advantages of the media to commercial their products. They also appeal to viewers by creating trust and reliability through endorsements of respected, influential people such as athletes and celebrities. Major companies also appeal to their consumers through reason and logic, as well as appeal at an emotional level to persuade potential customers
survival against the T-800 in the first movie and the T-1000 in the second movie. In The Terminator, “Sarah Connor is a hapless teenage waitress with a dull life and lives with her best friend and roommate Ginger Ventura” (Terminator Wiki) Unknowningly to Sarah, a Terminator, a model T-800, is sent to her time from the future to kill her. His mission is to kill Sarah Connor in order to prevent John Connor from being born and creating the Resistance. The first move the T-800 makes is looking up the
immigration in different ways. The texts The Red Umbrella and A Band-Aid for 800 Children both portray the subject immigration in similar and different ways. Immigration usually occurs because people want a better life in another country. Both books portray immigration decisions being made in search of a better life. In The Red Umbrella ,the parents say ¨We’ve made plans for you to leave Cuba … tomorrow.¨ In A Band-Aid for 800 Children, all of the children's parents made decisions to keep their kids
Airlines all around the world have to look into different types of aircrafts that best fit their needs for their passengers and the distance between destinations. Boeing and Airbus, two of the world’s biggest commercial airplane manufactures in the world have been competing to get airlines attention on when they are looking to expand their airplane fleet. This competition has been characterized as a duopoly in the large airliner market since the early nineties has when a series of mergers in the
subject of immigration the same way. The texts, “Red Umbrella”, and “Band-aid for 800 Children” both have immigration as the main subject and they portray the subject in both similar and different ways. Both texts portray immigration similarly and differently. One example of how they are similar is they both are based on true events. “Red Umbrella” is about a family during the Cuban revolution, and, “Band-aid for 800 Children” is about someone today that takes care of the kids that were born in the
the viewer is initially unaware whether the T-800, a cyborg with living tissue over metal endoskeleton, or the T-1000, an advanced terminator made of liquid metal and able to take many forms, is the antagonist sent to kill John Connor. It is not until the mall scene, where John Connor is caught between the two machines that we discover that the T-800 is actually the protector sent by the resistance. In this mirroring of the terminators, the T-800 casts the image of a powerful tank, while the T-1000
15 Year Real Life Plan Year 2015 I intend to graduate in spring 2015. After I graduate, enroll for PhD in Industrial Engineering at Georgia technological University or University of Michigan –An arbor. I will be using my student loan to pursue my PhD. I plan to work on campus for a year to support my living. I will buy a used car (2005 Honda Accord) as for my basic needs. Year 2016 After my first year of my PhD, I plan to work under a professor whose area of expertise is in supply chain engineering
begin, the new version of the SAT has a new method of scoring from the old version. The old SAT's scoring was a scale from 600-2400 with 3 different sections. First, the critical reading section scored from 200-800, the writing and essay section scored from 200-800, and math scored from 200-800. However, the new SAT has a scoring scale of 400-1600 with 2 mandatory sections and an optional essay. The sections are evidence-based reading and
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Material Selection Task 1. Fuselage Material Analysis for the Boeing 737-800 The Boeing is a narrow-body, twinjet airliner with family models that can accommodate a passenger capacity of 45-215 people. Currently, only the next generation variants (737-700, 737-800, and 737-900ER) are being assembled. This analysis delves into the fuselage material for Boeing 737 -800 (capacity ≈ 184 passengers). The first unit of Boeing 737-800 was delivered in June 2010 to Luxair Luxembourg Airlines (“Aerospace Technology
She has proven that she can do anything and is capable of winning both long distance events and sprinter events. She currently holds world records in the 800 and 1500 meter freestyles with gold medals. Katie had one 4 gold medals and 1 silver at the Rio Olympics. Katie has became the 1st woman to win many events. The champion swimmer had been accepted to Stanford University and is there today. She currently
black and white terms and is obvious in his attempt to demonstrate the separation he feels others place between black and white people. Consider the following lines “So will my page be colored that I write? / Being me, it will not be white,” (Hughes 800). Hughes feels this separation and states it outright between black and white, not of educational boundaries or anything else except racial bias. Then, in Graff’s essay, he goes much more in depth on the topic, talking about educational boundaries and