Annotated Bibliography Name: Khairul Ikmal Abd Razak ID number:1614065 Article topic: The Causes and Consequences of accident of United Airlines Boeing 747 Hawaii (1989) Source 1 Rodney Stich 2010, ‘History of U.S. Aviation Disasters: 1950 to 9/11’, Hawaiian Nightmare, pp. 204-206. [Online] , viewed 29 April 2012, . This article tell me a brief story on what was actually happen before, on the scene and after the accident of United Airlines Boeing 747 Hawaii(1989) and also some causes to this tragedy. Rodney Stitch tell me in his writing the causes of this accident and the others were the long delayed correction of safety problems, maintenance oversight problems and also the lack of adequate fuselage strength at the cargo door.
Japanese planes were spotted by radar before the attack, but they were assumed to be a flight of American B-17s due in from the West Coast. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. Congress approved his declaration with just one dissenting vote. It was a calm normal day on September 11, 2001 when two commercial jets flew into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers. 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.
Response to 9/11 The Event On 11th September 2001, four planes were hijacked by Al-Qaeda. One of the planes flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in New York City. 20 minutes after this horrible event, with camera crews sending pictures all over the world, a second plane crashed into the South Tower. Both Towers collapsed, killing 2,752 people. This number includes the innocent people on the planes, firemen, policemen and medical staff who had all gone to assist the crisis.
Modern American History HIST101-1502B-01 Individual Project 5 Tim Hartley 6/22/2015 9-11 On September, 11 2001 the United States was attacked by Islamic terrorists group Al-Qaeda. The official report is 19 members of these Islamic extremist group hi-jacked 4 airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets inside the United States. At 8:45 a.m. an American airliner 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel flew into the North Tower of the World Trade center in New York City. The impact from this crash left a burning hole near the 80th floor of the 110-story skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more in higher floors. 18 minutes after the crash as the news cameras broadcasted live images of what initially appeared to be a freak accident, a second Boeing 767–United Airlines Flight 175–appeared out of the sky and flew into the south tower of World Trade center near the 60th floor .
At least one CIA official immediately grasps the implications: “The Cuban Brigade was doomed.” April 17: Shortly after midnight, approximately 1,400 Cuban exiles, known as Brigade 2506, begin to land on the coast of southern Cuba, in and around the Bay of Pigs. At dawn, they come under attack from the surviving planes of Castro’s air force. Two key supply ships are quickly sunk. Meanwhile, in the United States, life goes on. Billy Wilder’s The Apartment wins an Academy Award for Best Picture that evening in Los Angeles.
On September 11, 2001 a tragic event occurred changing the national security system, for ever. That day terrorists from the group Al-Qaeda attacked the United States of America. Two airplanes full of passengers crashed into the world trade center, one plane crashed into the pentagon, and another was purposely taken down by a group of courageous passengers who took over the plane from the hijackers, crashed that plane into an open field potentially saving the lives of thousands. The attacks obviously affected people, and families all over the United States but the attacks resulted in the revolution of the nation’s security. The 9/11 attacks revealed flaws in aviation security which required an assembly of an all new aviation security system, opened a new security department, and had many indirect effects.
CIS518 Assignment 1 Submitted by: Mohammad Shahriar Professor: Dr. Edwin Otto Strayer University EXERCISES - 1 PILOT’S COMPUTER ERROR CITED IN PLANE CRASH. AMERICAN AIRLINES SAYS ONE-LETTER CODE WAS REASON JET HIT MOUNTAIN IN COLOMBIA. Dallas, Aug. 23—The captain of an American Airlines jet that crashed in Colombia last December entered an incorrect one-letter computer command that sent the plane into a mountain, the airline said today. The crash killed all but four of the 163 people aboard. American’s investigators concluded that the captain of the Boeing 757 apparently thought he had entered the coordinates for the intended destination, Cali.
Williams, conveys conflicting perspectives about the September 11 attack by terrorists on the Pentagon. The slideshow depicts the 9/11 attacks on the United States America building pentagon. The slideshow starts of with a few known facts “ 9.38am....American Airlines flight 77...flew into the Pentagon”. It then goes to the perspective of who could see the damage “hole in pentagon and no Boeing 757” and a image in the background with arrows pointing to undamaged spools of wire and windows intact after the impact which someone would consider not normal if a plane crashes into a building. Providing a numerous amounts of eye witness accounts of the crash Williams deliberately builds the argument that there is a possibility that it was not a plane
As people fled from their homes they were machine-gunned by fighter planes. The three hour raid completely destroyed the town. It is estimated that 1,685 people were killed and 900 injured in the attack and the British leaders did not want that to happen to Britain especially when it would be a much lager scale. -29th September, 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier and Benito Mussolini signed the Munich Agreement which transferred the Sudetenland to Germany. When Czechoslovakia's head of state protested at this decision Neville Chamberlain told him that Britain would be not go to war over the Sudetenland.
This occurred when orders were issued to mobilize the 18th Tactical Fighter Wing from Okinawa Air Force Base. A red alert alarm was sounded at Kadena Air Force Base at 3:00 a.m. Over 40 F-105 Thunderchiefs were deployed to targets located in North Vietnam as a part of Operation Flaming Dart. After several attacks occurred, it was decided that the US Air Force bases needed more protection. The South Vietnamese military were not capable at this activity it seemed. On 8 March 1965, 3 500 Marines were dispatched to South Vietnam, marking the beginning of the American ground