1994,When Technology Fails : significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the twentieth century, Gale Research, Detroit, pp.81-86. This article assesses the causes and consequences of accident of United Airlines Boeing 747 Hawaii (1989). The authors enlighten two other accidents which were connected severely with this accident which are Pan Am 747-100(1987) and Kennedy International Airport 747-200 (1991) . Schlager, Neil (ed.) 1994 conclude that the real causes of this disaster were weak locks of the door and the stray signals produced by some pair of wires which made the opened itself without any command.
Is D.B Cooper still alive? This is a question that has stumped the FBI for over 45 years. Can a man parachute from a passenger airliner in driving rain with winds in excess of 200 miles per hour? The year is 1971, 24 November to be exact. A seemingly shy man in his mid-forties buys a ticket in Portland for Seattle on Northwest Airlines flight 305.
“The engines and the flight control surfaces appear to be responding as expected to control inputs. “There is no anomalous behavior of the autopilot, of the flight director, and of the auto-throttle based on the FDR data viewed to date.” This device is used for controlling an aircraft or other vehicle without constant human intervention. According to National Transportation Safety Board Chairwomen Pilot Lee Kang-Kook was on the flight that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport Saturday was on his first long-distance training run with the Boeing 777 jet. Kang-Kook only had just 43 hours at the controls of the 777 prior to Saturday’s tragedy. Even a veteran gets training for a new jet,” the airlines spokeswoman said.
Two reports have noted that there was a loose screw in the tail of the airplane and that turbulence from the airplane racing close by added to the collision. Federal regulators that are involved in the investigations have discovered some documents pointing to potential deficiencies in the safety inspection procedures. One National Transportation Safety Board document shows inspectors made notes estimated a month before the race that the screws were too short in one of the trim tabs that helped control the airplane that crashed. The crew supposedly and reportedly fixed the problem and the plane was cleared to race. However, the National Transportation Safety Board said there was "no written procedure or sign off to ensure" that the problem was fixed.
Crash of Continental Connection flight 3407, operated by Colgan Air. It was February the 12th, 2009 when the twin-engine De Havilland Dash-8-402 Q400 crashed in Buffalo New York. I remember seeing it on the news; I was frightened because I was flying in two months to Myrtle Beach on a Q400. After watching air-crash investigations, Stalled In the Sky, I was shocked to find out the cause of the crash. Captain Marvin Renslow, and first officer Rebecca Shaw, are at the controls during this flight.
Running Head: PILOT FATIGUE: A PROBLEM NOT EASILY CONQUERED Pilot Fatigue: A Problem Not Easily Conquered Marshall E Wright Liberty University - AVIA 300 Abstract Pilot fatigue is a major headline issue in the United States. There has been much research and study on fatigue as it relates to the human body. Unfortunately, little has been done in terms of regulations to fix the problem. Pilot Fatigue: A Problem Not Easily Conquered In the last fifty years, every area of aviation has been examined through the safety microscope. The industry successfully made changes that has made airplanes much safer.
Air Florida Flight Ninety Crash into Potomac River Washington National Airport January 13, 1982 Accident Investigation Safety 330 Abstract This paper discusses the January 13, 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 Boeing 737 collision into the Potomac River 14th Street Bridge shortly after takeoff from Washington’s National later renamed Ronald Reagan International Airport (DCA). The focus is on the main probable causes involved in this accident, Weather, Crew experience, Air field conditions, Maintenance and my personal belief of how the Deregulation Act of 1978 played a role in the demise of this flight. This paper is not a reproduction of the National Transportation Safety Report: AAR-82-08 that gives a detailed report of all factors, but more of a personal rendition based on my experience and research as a U.S Air Forced trained Flight Engineer with over 6000 flight hours combined with academic training in aircraft accident investigation. While conducting research on various aircraft accidents certain ones tend to attract attention more than others. In consideration of the reader of this paper what can be written about this accident that would be of interest not commonly found in the accident report.
Built by Lockheed Martin under a 2001 contract, the F-35 is supposed to replace Cold War-era aircraft such as the Air Force's F-16 fighter and the Navy's and Marines' F/A-18 Hornet. It would also be sold to NATO countries and other U.S. allies. A single-seat aircraft, it can fly at about 1,050 mph and fight both air-to-air and air-to-ground significantly better than its predecessors. Just as the program appeared to be taking off, it was grounded over a variety of concerns. They range from improperly installed parachutes under the pilots' ejector seats, to worries at the Pentagon that there has not been enough testing of the jets, to ongoing concerns by some in Congress that the entire F-35 program is too expensive.
It may be distrust of the government or it really is just the human mind wanting answers. The movie started off with giving a timeline of events leading up to that day. It had mentioned that on February 28, 1998, “Global Hawk, Raytheon's Unmanned-aircraft-vehicle, completes its first flight over Edwards Air Force Base in California, at an altitude of 32000 feet, cruising altitude for a commercial jetliner.” But what exactly does this have to do with the hijacking of the planes? They also mention that put-options were put on different airline’s stocks. Usually with stocks if one person makes a bet, another person will follow that person’s example and it will snowball into many people doing the same exact thing the first person did.
The impact of this disaster will be analyzed. Not only the impact that was made on the families of the victims lost, but also the impact of the disaster that was made on the airline industry. In conclusion, a discussion about improvements was included to be better organized in the event a similar disaster was to take place. THE CRASH OF VALUJET FLIGHT 592 On May 11, 1996 a Douglas DC-9 crashed into the Everglades about 20 minutes after takeoff from Miami International Airport (MIA), Miami, Florida. It was determined that this DC-9 was a plane operated by ValuJet Airlines as flight 592.