It was determined that this DC-9 was a plane operated by ValuJet Airlines as flight 592. Both pilots, three flight attendants, and all 104 passengers were killed. It was determined that 105 passengers had boarded the plane. A four-year-old was listed to be on the plane. However, the presence of this child was not shown on the manifest or on the weight and balance and performance form.
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.
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.
Most significantly, it tells the story of the unsung heroes. Not just the firefighters, policemen, and Port Authority workers, but of the everyday people who worked in the building and the depths they went to save co-workers and people they didn't know inside the buildings. The writers gathered the information from people trapped that the writers spoke to during the catastrophe and from thousands of radio transcripts, e-mails, phone messages, and interviews with eyewitnesses. Inserted “To end the quote Removed comma This September 11th account comes from the view of those inside the World Trade Center from the instant the first plane hit at 8:46 a.m. to the collapse of the north tower at 10:28 a.m. The stories are deeply intimate and they often stir up emotions.
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 . The collision caused a massive explosion that showered burning debris over surrounding buildings and the streets below. It was now clear that America was under attack. At around 10.00 a.m. the south tower of the World trade center collapsed and at 10:30 the north tower collapsed killing close to 3000 people including 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the office workers trapped on higher floors. Only six people in the World Trade Center towers at the time of their collapse survived.
19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both towers collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others on their
Researchers say they know how the Hindenburg airship came to its fiery end: static electricity. Seventy-six years ago, the German dirigible was promoted as the future of trans-Atlantic flight, but instead it became the notorious poster child of air disasters. As the hydrogen-filled blimp was landing in Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937, it suddenly burst into flames and crashed in front of shocked bystanders, killing 35 of the 100 passengers and crew on board—and putting an end to the short-lived air travel program. Now scientists who have been studying the circumstances that led to the Hindenburg’s end say they know what happened. The Independent, in an article about a documentary on the Hindenburg airing on Britain's Channel 4 on Thursday, explains that Jem Stansfield, a British aeronautical engineer who led a team of researchers at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, blew up and set fire to models of the dirigible to rule out possibilities including a bomb and exploding paint.
Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, while the third plane soared into the Pentagon just outside of Washington, D.C., along with the last plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania ("History.com," 2011). In this attack, more than three thousand people died and extensive destruction. Various people lost their lives due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time and risking their lives to save others. Many citizens reacted out of anger, fear, and insecurity to this unexpected situation. People began to question how safe the United State really is, which brought the attention to our Congress and the
The events of September 11th 2001 shocked the world, two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York. The world’s news reported on the crashes the first was a shock the second unfurled live on air witnessed by millions around the world. The events of this day were not only tragic but had a major impact on how people looked at their lives, the re-evaluated how they lived, how they travelled even culturally life changed. As a result of people’s changing attitudes freedom of speech, censorship, music and even the way news is reported has changed. Vocabulary changed too “terrorism” “bomb” and “terror attacks” were terms used regularly and became a social norm with “war” being added to the list when Iraq was invaded.
A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon, leading to a partial collapse in its western side. The fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, was targeted at Washington, D.C., but crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after its passengers tried to overcome the hijackers. In total, almost 3,000 people died in the attacks, including the 227 civilians and 19 hijackers aboard the four planes. It also was the deadliest incident for firefighters in the history of the United States. Suspicion quickly fell on al-Qaeda.