...On Saturday, March 8th, 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight MH-370 mysteriously vanished. The world was in shock. Everyone was asking, how does one of the largest commercial airplanes disappear? My point of writing this essay is to give more information on what we know happened, what experts & theorists think happened, and what could have happened. With that being said, this specific plane crash is one of the most bizarre of all time. It was a learning experience to a lot of people, and a tragedy to the family members. Most people don’t know a lot about MH-370, so I’m going to do my best to explain what happened to the airplane. Flight MH-370 was scheduled to take flight on Saturday, March 8th, 2014. It passed all the normal checks that make sure...
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...Another very crucial issue that has come to play an extreme role in the safety precautions of air travel, is the Malaysia Airline Flight 370 disappearance. This puts a tremendously large mystery on whether or not there is some kind of organized coincidence in the involvement of these downed planes. Flight 370 disappeared on March 8th, in route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, as said by CNN News reporters. Extensive research has been continuing the search for answer conclusively for months now, and still there is absolutely no sign of the plane. “This part of the investigation is aimed at gathering crucial data to map the ocean floor, charting its contours, depths and hardness, of which there is limited data,” comes from a reporter from the...
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...considered to be safer than other mode of transportation, yet the number of aerial disasters in this era have raised questions about how pilots are evaluated and how airlines can be sure that such horrifying event won’t reoccur. Below are some of the most famous aviation mysteries of all times, that were led to a fatal climax. 10.) Helios Airways Flight 522 Helios Airways Flight 522 was a Helios Airways passenger flight that collided against a mountain on 14 August 2005 while flying from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Athens, Greece. When the aircraft arrived from London earlier that morning, the flight crew complained about a frozen door seal and abnormal noises coming from one of the service door. They put forward a demand for...
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...Boeing 777, one of the world's most reliable types of airliners, is missing, and no one knows why. Was it a bomb? Mechanical failure? A hijacking gone awry? Pilots and others in the aviation community are deeply disturbed by the mystery surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. It disappeared Saturday en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing over the Gulf of Thailand, somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam. It's hard to believe that such huge questions remain four days after the Boeing 777-200ER went missing, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members. A revelation Tuesday set off a fresh wave of speculation. Radar tracking detected the plane hundreds of miles off course, traveling in the opposite direction from its original destination, a senior Malaysian Air Force official told CNN. The aircraft had stopped sending identifying transponder codes before it disappeared, the official said. The new details marked a dramatic twist in the investigation. But some reports have quoted other Malaysian authorities offering conflicting information, with some denying the military official's claim. What can cause an airplane to disappear? Search underway for missing Flight 370 Authorities 'puzzled' by missing flight Search area for missing plane widens The situation is so unprecedented that experts have been careful in speculating about possible explanations. Here are four scenarios they're talking about, and the related facts: 1. Scenario: Mechanical failure? Fact: The absence...
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...Chase Cornwell Atkinson 10:10-11:00 April 7th 2014 On March 8th, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER left the runway presumably for the last time. The Malaysian airliner, carrying 239 people, went off radar at 01:20am MST after departing from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. It was scheduled to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. the same day, however, Subang air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane shortly after departure. This ongoing investigation has led to further speculation on possible causes and the role of insurance in a loss of this magnitude. Although unlikely, aviation exposures have the potential to result in large property damage and loss of human life. Malaysia flight 370 illustrates the importance and principles of insurance in the aviation industry. Through the application and relevance of Principles of Risk Management and Insurance, this disaster can be better understood from an insurance standpoint. “Pooling or the sharing of losses is the heart of insurance. Pooling is the spreading of losses incurred by the few over the entire group, so that in the process, average loss is substituted for actual loss,”(Rejda 20). This foundation is the essence of insurance and in this case, the key factor in indemnifying the families of those onboard Malaysia flight 370. ‘“It’s not an issue of whether families will be compensated, it’s a question of how much and when’”, stated by Monica R. Kelly, an American aviation lawyer who indicates that a court in the United...
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...Human Development Report 2014 Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience Empowered lives. Resilient nations. The 2014 Human Development Report is the latest in the series of global Human Development Reports published by UNDP since 1990 as independent, empirically grounded analyses of major development issues, trends and policies. Additional resources related to the 2014 Human Development Report can be found online at http://hdr.undp.org, including complete editions or summaries of the Report in more than 20 languages, a collection of papers commissioned for the 2014 Report, interactive maps and databases of national human development indicators, full explanations of the sources and methodologies employed in the Report’s human development indices, country profiles and other background materials as well as previous global, regional and national Human Development Reports. Human Development Report 2014 Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience Empowered lives. Resilient nations. Published for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Reports 1990–2014 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007/2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 Concept and Measurement of Human Development Financing Human Development Global Dimensions of Human Development People’s Participation New Dimensions of Human Security Gender and Human Development Economic...
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...Marketing Channel Strategy This page intentionally left blank Eighth Edition Marketing Channel Strategy Robert W. Palmatier University of Washington’s Foster School of Business Louis W. Stern Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management Adel I. El-Ansary University of North Florida’s Coggin College of Business Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montréal Toronto Delhi Mexico City São Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Editor in Chief: Stephanie Wall Acquisitions Editor: Mark Gaffney Program Manager Team Lead: Ashley Santora Program Manager: Jennifer M. Collins Director of Marketing: Maggie Moylen Executive Marketing Manager: Anne Fahlgren Project Manager Team Lead: Judy Leale Project Manager: Thomas Benfatti Operations Specialist: Nancy Maneri Cover Designer: Suzanne Behnke Creative Director: Jayne Conte Digital Production Project Manager: Lisa Rinaldi Full Service Vendor: Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd. Full Service Project Manager: Anandakrishnan Natarajan/Integra Software Services Printer/Binder: Courier/Westford Cover Printer: Lehigh-Phoenix Text Font: 10/12, ITC Garamond Credits and acknowledgments borrowed from other sources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook appear on appropriate page within text (or on page xix). Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Prentice...
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