...first officer, who was flying the aircraft, requested the wing flaps be extended to 15 degrees, then asked that the landing gear be lowered. As the landing gear extended, an unusual sound was heard and the aircraft yawed. Upon request, Portland approach then vectored the aircraft in a holding pattern southeast of the airport. After about an hour and a half of circling southeast of the airfield while the flight crew coped with the landing gear malfunction and prepared the passengers for a possible emergency landing, the captain finally decided to begin the approach to runway 28L. The plane crashed during the approach about 6 nautical miles southeast of the airport in a wooded populated of suburban Portland due to fuel exhaustion. The aircraft was destroyed and thankfully because there was no fuel in the fuel tanks, there was no fire. Of the 181 passengers and 8 crewmembers aboard, 8 passengers, the flight engineer, and a flight attendant were killed and 21 passengers and 2 crewmembers were seriously injured (National Transportation Safety Board, 1979). II. Problem The problem here is that there was absolutely no use of Crew Resource Management, there was an apparent fear of sternness and assertiveness from the copilot and flight engineer, and a huge lack of communication between crew members, which allowed all of the crew members to become so lost in the landing gear problem, allowing the aircraft fuel tanks to be run dry and...
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...Deceit is often seen as cruel and unnecessary. However, sometimes it is needed. In Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Orr is the perfect example of how deceiving someone might be necessary for survival. By using his ability, Yossarian’s tentmate Orr manages to escape the unending cycle of increasing war missions through a master plan of deception. Despite being extremely clever, Orr makes himself appear to be clueless and innocent. Fixing things around the tent and telling pointless stories, such as the crab apple tale, Orr makes himself appear to not be a threat. By drifting through the war and not making many enemies, Orr puts himself in a position of security, despite his scheming behind the scenes. Crash landing his plane makes him seem incompetent,...
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...United Flight 93, was one of four planes hijacked on September 11, 2001. United Flight 93 was the only hijacked plane that did not reach it's targeted destination—assumed to be the Capitol Building or the White House. Crew and passengers of the flight attempted to gain control of the aircraft after the hijacking. Two informative movies, released in 2006, portrayed the chaos of September 11, 2001 from the prospective of the passengers on United Flight 93 and from FAA workers and the military. Flight 93, the movie portrayed in the perspective of the passengers of the hijacked flight, is an emotional movie. After the plane is hijacked, movie viewers are able to hear real audio recordings of passengers calling their loved ones. Many also call...
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...Arabia. Pilots noticed problems during early stages of take-off and only made it 671 meters in elevation before attempting to turn around for a emergency landing. It was too late; the under inflated tires had overheated began to catch fire. The fire grew and blew out the hydraulics which made the emergency landing impossible. This was the worst wreck a DC-8 had ever experienced and has held the record for many years following. The NTSB concluded that the fire could have been handled by leaving the landing gear extended and away from the plane. Although the pilots failed to make the right decision, and added just one more human error to the equation, it was the obvious neglect by the maintenance team that caused this horrific accident. There are many human factors which played a vital role in the crash. The maintenance team failed to inflate the #2 and #4 main gear tires after recognizing the pressure during the pre-flight. An attempt to inflate the tires failed because there was no nitrogen available at the location. Further investigation shows later that the maintenance team recognized and had written up the tires during a previous "A" inspection but was signed off and overlooked more than twice before the incident. Human Factors Involvement There are many human factors that caused the Flight 2120 crash, and most of them are maintenance related. There was a Liveware-Liveware...
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...California. It was not a normal flight in to the San Francisco airport because the run way was under construction so that meant the pilot would have to do a visual landing. He would not be able to use any of his aircraft guidance system to assist him in landing the aircraft at San Francisco airport. The pilot was already nervous as it was before flying this aircraft because he was a trainee in the Boeing 777 but was an experienced pilot with the Korea based airliners. He had less than 45 hours in the Boeing 777 and was not confident the day of the crash. The pilot had flown in to this tricky airport in 2004 so it 9 years this pilot had not been to this airport. It was a place he was unfamiliar with and lacked confidence. The other crew members with him were another trainee, instructor pilot, and first officer. When the pilot was making the visual approach he had no landing aids and had to line up the massive Boeing 777 by looking out the windshield, to center the aircraft. When he was making his approach the first officer raised concerns about four times that planes descent is to rapidly but no one in the cockpit said anything. The crew did notice some worry/concern on the pilots face when he was making his approach but didn’t say anything. He says in statement that he was very nervous and did not want to make the landing but did it because others had landed at the San Francisco airport under the same circumstances. He told investigators, “He could not say he could not do the visual...
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...Kafi Hunter Torts Assignment Module 6 As a result of the crash, Farmer suffered several thousand dollars in damage to his land. Neither Dan nor Pilot suffered any physical injuries. 1. Does Farmer have any claim(s) for damages against Pilot based on intentional tort? Discuss. Intentional tort is a deliberate action to cause harm. The Pilot could not see if the land that she choose to navigate the plane for a safe landing had any crops therefore her intent was not deliberate to destroy the crops. However, the Pilot did trespass on the Farmers land. Trespass is considered an intentional tort and occurs when the violation of an exclusive possession is interfered upon. A trespass violation also gives the owner of the property the right to bring a civil lawsuit and collect damages as compensation for any harm suffered. The Pilot did not have permission to land on the Farmers land when landing the plane. The Pilot also destroyed crops with landing the plane. The Farmer does have a claim against the Pilot based on the intentional tort of trespass. 2. Does Dan have any claim(s) against Pilot for intentional tort? Discuss. Dan could claim battery against the Pilot because she intended to move him out of the way. Battery is an intentional tort and a crime because it is a harmful or offensive contact towards another person. Pilot asked Dan to move out of the way of the exit so that Pilot could leave the plane. Dan choose to remain seated until the Fire Department cleared...
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...What if you are piloting a plane, full of passengers, and your plane’s engines lost almost all power, and you couldn’t land at an airport. Where you you land? Well Chesley Sullenberger successfully landed his plane on the Hudson River in the same situation. And I say that he is a hero just for that. Chesley Sullenberger, saved 155 people from a potential plane crash, his guided characteristics, and helped improve airline safety deserves him the status of a hero. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is a hero for multiple reasons. The first reason is that he avoided a potential plane crash. For example, he was able to save 155 lives from dying in a plane crash back in 2009 (www.tailstrike.com), and safely landed a plane into the Hudson River without any people dying (www.sulleysullenberger.com). Because of this, it is easy to say that he was very heroic when he was trying to save the plane....
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...that happened in 1997 at Newark International Airport in New Jersey. The paper will address the causes of the accidents, the findings of the investigation carried out after the accident, recommendations after the investigation as well as the measures taken to make sure that accidents of this type do not happen again. Aviation Safety FedEx Express Flight 14 This scheduled cargo flight was going to Newark International Airport, New Jersey from the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska. It crashed when trying to make a safe landing on July 31, 1997. The pilots thought that the plane would have little stopping distance after landing, which made them think of landing early on the runway. Misinterpretation of runway data was the main cause of the crash (Dismukes, Berman & Loukopoulos, 2012). The pilots were aware that the plane had problems with its auto-breaks because they failed to initiate during landing, which also contributed to their hasty decision to land the craft earlier than expected. The problem arose at the commencement of the flare phase. The MD-11 touched down and rolled, which continued until the spars of the right wing broke. The craft crashed on the runway on its back and it was on fire. Luckily, none of the crewmembers suffered any injuries. The National Transportation Safety Board conducted an investigation on the causes of both the...
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...The “crash-and-sink theory” (Hanes) is the most believed and reasonable theory to researchers and all of her fans (“5 Theories”). “According to the so-called ‘crash-and-sink’ theory, the plane eventually ran out of gas and plunged into the ocean, killing both Earhart and Noonan. It then sank, leaving no sign of their whereabouts” (Hanes). When Earhart and Noonan went missing, many searches, mainly by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, came up with no evidence of anything besides them running out of fuel and crashing. “An intensive search of the vicinity by the Coast Guard and U.S. Navy found no physical evidence of the fliers or their plane” (“Amelia Earhart Disappears.”). This is what lead the public to believe that Earhart crashed into the ocean, and why people wanted to find out more information to know if this is actually what happened. There is also another very crazy theory built off of this one. Some people seem to think that Earhart did crash in the Pacific, but instead of dying she swam all the way to Gardner Island. Since bones were found on the island, these people think that coconut crabs ate her skin after she died, or they ate her alive because she was so weak (Staggs). There is really no evidence...
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...tactics we are using this very second. The very unfortunate events that took place in March of 2002 in the mountains of Afghanistan during The Battle of Takur Ghar forever changed the way SOF operates in combat. These changes significantly altered the way SOF is allowed to infill troops on ground, in many instances making the missions less effective. The Battle The Battle of Takur Ghar started out as a simple mission where two Seal Teams were supposed to be inserted by two separate helicopters in order set up an observation post on the peak of the mountain named Takur Ghar. The U.S. Forces had no idea that the Landing Zone (LZ) at the peak had two enemy bunker positions that were well hidden and concealed by snow and foliage. The fighting positions even remained undetected from our aerial reconnaissance aircrafts. The first helicopter approached the LZ for landing and was immediately struck by a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG). After the helicopter was impacted by the RPG one of the Seals slipped off the back ramp of the helicopter and fell out roughly five to ten feet onto the snowy peak met immediately by opposing forces. “Nobody knows exactly what transpired over the next few minutes on that mountain top. There were no surveillance aircraft over the mountaintop at the time Roberts fell from the...
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...Air-miles I was thirteen when it happened and Megan was nine. Mom had spent six months saving up air miles. Once she had enough she spent hours online battling with different airlines to get the deal of the century on four tickets to New-York. Then she spent another hour battling with the school when they looked at her as if we missed one Monday off school our career would be over. Mom liked the idea of taking us to New-York. Despite the check in queues, flight food and traffic leaving the airport. Despite all this we had a good weekend. We had seen the Empire State Building, stayed in a swanky hotel and maxed out two credit-cards in a mall on the outskirts of the city. Grandma had spoilt us rotten which we didn’t mind, we lived off a diet of junk food. Megan and I had the pair of seats on the right and our mom and grandma were on the left. I was consumed by my new PSP and Megan had found some romantic rubbish on the T.V. She was getting near the end of the film when her headset started to go on the blink. She was only getting sound out of one ear. She stole my headphones I know I wasn’t using them but when you're that young you want everything just because you do. ' Hey,' I shouted 'what are you doing' ' Mine are bust,' moaned Megan 'And you're not using them,' ' Yer but I might later.' I shouted. 'Well then you can have them back, you div,' Megan sighed. 'Stop arguing,' shouted Mom, but she didn't need to. There was a huge bang. The floor shuddered...
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...Chastin Seeby PRAV 495 Aviation Professionalism 2/8/2015 14 CFR 91.175 The regulation 14 CFR 91.175 refers to takeoffs and landing under IFR conditions. This regulation is meant to pilots and their passengers safe during instrument flight, but this can only happen if the regulation is understood. There was a recent crash on a localizer DME approach where the aircraft descended to MDA and reported that he had the approach lights in sight. The pilot immediately after he reported that he had the approach lights in sight descended to 100 feet above touchdown zone elevation and struck a rising tree covered hill a few miles from the end of the runway. This crash was the cause of not fully understanding the regulation and all that it says. In section (c), Operation below DH/DA or MDA, subsection (1) states that: The aircraft is continuously in a position from which a decent to a landing on the intended runway can be made at a normal rate of decent using normal maneuvers… The aircraft did not follow that particular part of the regulation. It is extremely important to remember that no pilot without meeting 3 things. The first has been mentioned above, the second states that: The flight visibility cannot be less than the visibility prescribed in the standard instrument approach being used And the third is that part that most instrument rated know verbatim, and it states: (3) Except for a Category II or Category III approach where any necessary visual reference...
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...ulfAnglo-Saxon hero Chesley Sullenberger III is hailed a hero for safely landing a US Airways jet in the Hudson River shortly after take-off. A flock of geese knocked out both engines about three minutes after departure leaving all 150 passengers and crew with the sole decision of the pilot to safely land the plane. (PAPP) Amazingly, all 150 passengers were rescued from the cold waters of the river. His demonstration of courage displays his wise decision to crash-land the plane in the freezing water rather than attempting a landing at the airport or on land. With only a few seconds to react to the situation, weighing all the possibilities what would be the safest method for all passengers aboard the plane. His ultimate character of courage is portrayed when he wades through the rising water in the plane, risking his life, to double check all passengers have evacuated the plane before he officially leaves the plane to sink below into the river which shows a man of courage and leadership. In Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf, Beowulf embodies the ideal Anglo-Saxon hero. Beowulf displays heroic characteristics of strength and audacity during combat with the vicious monsters. Through actions, Beowulf displays power and boldness during his battles with the vicious monsters. Young and tough, Beowulf hears of an inexorable creature that goes by the name of Grendel. (ABP) Grendel terrorizes the Danes, a small village, by inflicting constant cruelties on the villagers in the night. His desire...
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...Both nonfiction and fiction texts include an event that teaches the main character or the people surrounding the main character a lesson ( called a theme). The short passage from Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (nonfiction) and Teen in good spirits after surviving Washington plane crash by Associated Press (fiction) were read in the classroom by certain classmates for comparison. Both passages read about how a character was looking for survival after a plane crash. In the nonfiction text (Hatchet by Gary Paulsen) the author focuses on where the plane crash occurs and how the main character finds ways to survive. In the beginning of the passage it is quoted, “Trees suddenly took on detail, filled his whole field of vision with green”, this quote gives the...
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...is discussed the critical business function and plans to deal with computer outage, power outage when the issues happen. RISK ASSESSMENT Activity, Asset, Data information, risk The Air Traffic Control (ATC) is responsible for several activities in the airport. It involves separation assurance, landing services operating, navigation and ground control. Separation assurance is one of the main ATC components. It maintains the separation of aircraft from each other to avoid collision (Dwyer & Landry, 2013). The separation assurance tracks the position of each aircraft, and air traffic controller collects the information and provides it to the pilot. Both of automated tasks and manual tasks are involved in this function. The flights information such as identification, location and situation is recorded and used in the system. The separation assurance involves different facility such as radar and control tower. At the same time, this function is responsible for the safety of all the human life related to airport. The assets that can be affected by the system include common airport facility and human life. Landing service operation provides landing instruction and landing sequences to people. It ensures the...
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