The book Sully: My Search for What Really Matters shares the life story of Captain “Sully” Sullenberger. Chesley B. Sullenberger was raised by his mother and father on the outskirts of Denison, Texas. His mother instilled in him an appreciation for learning, and his father taught him the value of working hard by involving the whole family in continual home improvement projects. He also learned to put family first from his father. His dad would spontaneously take days off work and drive the family
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World Trade Center, and finally flight 93. There explanations for 9/11 are simple but I believe that the U.S government will protect the people. One terrorist professional group attacks were cleverly planned for 9/11. The Pentagon was one of events on 9/11 the film Claims that American Airlines Flight 77 could have not possibly crashed into the Pentagon; the damages left on the building did not match one of a commercial airline. The damages seemed more to have flight body hit it. The film proves this
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JAPAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 123 Aviation accident is defined by events associated with an aircraft that has the risk of affecting the safety of operations which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until such time as the passengers have disembarked, in which a person is fatally or seriously injured, the aircraft sustains damage or structural failure or the aircraft is missing or is completely inaccessible. An accident in which the damage to the aircraft
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Hypoxia: The Crash of Helios Airways Flight 522 Hypoxia: The Crash of Helios Airways Flight 522 Hypoxia: The Crash of Helios Airways Flight 522 Helios Airways Flight 522 was a Boeing 737 that crashed into a mountain on August 14, 2005 north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece while flying from Larnaca, Cyprus. Rescue teams located wreckage near the community of Grammatiko (25 mi) from Athens. All 121 on board perished, making this crash the deadliest aviation disaster in Greek history. The
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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
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a change in focus and are major catalysts for change. One of the more famous “watershed events” occurred in 1988, when an Aloha Airlines B737-200 suffered structural fuselage failure and subsequent decompression. On April 28, 1988, Aloha Airlines flight 243, a Boeing 737-200, experienced an explosive decompression during climb out at cruise altitude About 5.5 m of the pressure cabin skin and supporting structure aft of the cabin entrance door and above the passenger floorline separated from the aircraft
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The events leading up to the crash of United Airlines flight 93 in a Pennsylvania field on September 11, 2001 is told. The routine of most of the people associated with the regularly scheduled Newark to San Francisco flight was not out of the ordinary, except for the four Middle Eastern men who would eventually commandeer the plane, they who said their last prayers and goodbyes to loved ones for what they hoped would be forever on Earth before boarding the plane. Except for a thirty minute delay
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An epic hero is a larger-than-life figure who undertakes great journeys and performs deeds requiring remarkable strength and cunning. In the “Odyssey” by Homer, Odysseus is a man who is traveling home to Ithaca after 10 years until the end of the Trojan War and comes upon many thrilling, dangerous adventures along the way. The heroic traits of Odysseus in “The Odyssey” by Homer can be compared to those of three contemporary heroes. An epic hero shows courage. Odysseus shows courage when risks
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Stress There are many types of stress. Typically in the aviation environment there are two distinct types - acute and chronic. Acute stress arises from real-time demands placed on our senses, mental processing and physical body; such as dealing with an emergency, or working under time pressure with inadequate resources. Chronic stress is accumulated and results from long-term demands placed on the physiology by life’s demands, such as family relations, finances, illness, bereavement, divorce, or
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Hero Essay English 9 Mr. Castellano Our next major writing assignment is to write an essay about someone you consider to be a hero. We are doing this essay now because it coincides nicely with our reading of The Odyssey. As we have discussed in class, Odysseus is the archetypal Western hero: brave, strong, clever, quick-thinking, steadfast. The list could go one. My point is that as we read about this ancient and, I believe, still relevant hero I want you to think and write
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