Black Hawk Down Black Hawk down started off with a Somalian man leading the U.S. marines to Aidad’s political advisor. When the word “Irene” was given, the marines moved out. The “skinny’s” burned rubber tires to signal to the rest of the militia to warn of the incoming U.S. troops. The Marines had successfully captured the target and were headed back to base when, a Black Hawk (helicopter) was hit in the tail wing with a RPG. When the Black Hawk went down the objective of the marines was not only to get the target back to base, but also save the men in the crashed Black Hawk.
Ralph: I don’t know, Sir. I fell asleep soon after the take-off. When I woke up, I found myself on the beach with this boy called Piggy. He told me that we were attacked by an enemy plane. Piggy suggested me to blow the conch shell, to make contact with survivors on the island.
A seemingly shy man in his mid-forties buys a ticket in Portland for Seattle on Northwest Airlines flight 305. After the plane takes off, Dan Cooper, later to become DB calls the stewardess and tells her he is hijacking the plane. He shows her a briefcase containing what looks like a bomb. He instructs her to write a note demanding 4 parachutes and $200,000. After landing in Seattle he exchanges the 36 passengers for the parachutes and the money and instructs the pilot to fly to Mexico.
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.
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.
The World Trade Center has been hit by two commercial aircrafts who were hijacked by suicidal terrorists. In the essay ‘’Ground Zero’’ written by Suzanne Berne, the author describes her trip to Manhattan’s financial district, to pay her respects to what used to be the World Trade Center. She mentions how this will be her first time visiting Manhattan’s financial district. She describes how people all around the world came to Ground Zero to do the exact same thing she was doing… stare at nothing: ‘’Many of them were clutching cameras and video recorders, and they were all craning to see across the street, where there was nothing to see.’’ (182). She had no idea what miraculously thing she was about to see and as her eyes started slowly to adjust, that nothing she was seeing became something much more powerful.
This number includes the innocent people on the planes, firemen, policemen and medical staff who had all gone to assist the crisis. A third plane then later crashed into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the US military). 190 people died, including 64 passengers and crew who were on the plane. The fourth plane then later crashed in Pennsylvania after the people tried to retake the plane from the hijackers. 40 passengers and crew died.
“Flight” can show the message of falling to the “lowest of the lows” and gaining redemption towards the end. Whip Whitaker is a commercial airline pilot. While on a flight from Orlando to Atlanta something goes wrong and the plane starts to fly irregularly. With not a lot of options, Whip has to crash the plane: however, results in Whip Whitaker saving almost all on board. When he wakes up in the hospital, his friend from the airline union introduces him to a lawyer who tells him there's a chance he could face criminal charges.
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.
On April 6, 1994, President Habyarimana’s plane was shot down while returning from a peace meeting with the Tutsi rebels. This horrific event was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide and gave the Hutu extremists justification to kill the Tutsis, something they had been planning to do; it is possible that Hutu extremists shot down the President’s plane in order to set their plan in motion. That night Hutus told all Rwandans to stay in their homes. Little did the Tutsis know this was so the Hutus could find them and kill them. Hutus marched throughout the country with machetes, guns, grenades, and clubs, brutally murdering both Tutsis and Hutu moderates.