Pan Am Flight 009 The year is 1939 the Boeing 314 Clipper has just been introduced. This is the first double decker plane ever introduced for the commercial market. It is able to carry seventy-four passengers in total comfort. Only twelve of these beautiful planes have ever been produced, and nine of those have been sold straight to Pan American World Airways also known as Pan Am. Today is the opening day to introduce the new airliner and show off all of its advancements in aviation. The pilot is Captain Derik Segar; he has been flying for over 17 years and has been with Pan Am since they first opened their company in 1927. The Co-Pilot is Michael DèGrasse; he has also been with the company since they first started in 1927. These are the company’s …show more content…
Are we going to be able to make it to Havana?”
“Contact the control tower and request an emergency landing at once, clear the runway of any other planes and get the fire emergency team ready at once! We may not be able to control the plane even if we do get it down.”
“Yes sir captain, I will also tell Amandine to prepare for the emergency landing.”
As the captain struggles for control over the wounded bird, all hope is lost. Would this plane ever be savable? It would require an act of God. Unbeknownst to them the plane has had a rapid decompression that is causing the entire plane to rebel against all inputs of the captain. The hydraulic lines have been severed, which means that the plane has no control what so ever. Amandine and the other stewardess struggle to see in the plane due to the thick white smoke that has been filling the cabin, since the emergency started. “Please fasten your seat belts, put all personal items in the bag in front of you, please take off your shoes, and go into the brace position, we will be attempting a crash landing. Please be praying for this aircraft.” Amandine has a shaky tone in her voice, causing even more discomfort to the passengers; she knows the ultimate doom this flight is destined to
Critique of “First Flight” The “First Flight” is an excellent short story that made pathos for the reader to portray in the life of an everyman who has to deal with exclusion and people’s bad choices. Gregory is an 18 year old who just wants to be sociable but everyone just shuts him out and doesn’t pay attention to him. He stops in a train station to warm up and is ridiculed on a false accusation of stealing a pilot uniform. W.D Valgardson perfectly shows both of the main themes.
Picture yourself, for a moment, among 243 passengers on a Boeing jumbo jet. It is two days before Christmas of 1988, and you are excited to see your family in New York. You are sitting comfortably in your coach class window seat in row 40, reading a poetry book by Charles Baudelaire. It’s 7:00 pm and about 35 minutes after takeoff; the plane is just leveling off at its cruising altitude. You hear the captain throttle back the engines now. Everything is perfect in this aircraft; in fact, it’s not really an aircraft at all. It’s more like a room than a metal tube; a room with perfectly vertical walls. By now, most people have actually forgotten that they are, in fact, inside an airplane. They are in a movie theater, a bar, or even their own home relaxing in their favorite recliner. Suddenly, you hear a loud noise from the front of the plane. You feel extreme pressure on every square inch of your body, like you have been hit by a train. Screams and shrieks fill the cabin, and then, very abruptly, everything ends, forever. This is precisely what happened to David Dornstein before he fell, already dead, 6 miles to the ground in Ella Ramsden’s front yard, the landing site for about 60 other individuals when the plane exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Juan “Terry” Trippe was an innovator in aviation, business, and even in sociology. The very same techniques he used to build his business from the ground up and the jets he and his engineers worked tirelessly to design are still in use today. Though Pan American Airways is dead as a company, the legend of the most notorious and first of its kind airline company will live in the heart and soul of aviation and American history forever.
The book Flight written by Sherman Alexie is about a 15 year old part Native American
Terrorism – This is a word that many people are terrified of. When a terrorist attack occurs, people’s daily routines are shattered. Things change instantaneously the moment the bomb goes of. When we think about a terrorist attack that really impacted the world, we immediately think about 9/11. On that day many people were hurt directly and indirectly. People were disorientated and scared. The moment there is change, the world panics. Unfortunately, 9/11 was not the only day where people panicked. On 1988, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 occurred. This terrorist attack was not as massive as 9/11; but, it did leave scares especially to the Syracuse University community.
The Colgan Air Flight 3407 was a very interesting case to look at. On February 12, 2009, at 10:17 pm, flight 3407 crashed at a house in New York after the pilots experience a stall. Flight 3407 was scheduled to fly from Newark, New Jersey to Buffalo, New York. The NTSB reported the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) revealed some discrepancies both pilots were experience. The first officer did not have any experience with icing condition but icing was one of the reasons the plane went into a stall. On the other hand, the captain had some experience flying in icing condition. The captain was experiencing fatigue, which indeed, made him unfit to recover from a stall. With that in mind, the Human Factor Analysis Classification System (HFACS) will give insight of some errors both pilots made.
Can you define freedom? A Dutchman in Europe said, “You can’t. You don’t know what freedom is until you lose it” (Guarnere xxii). Freedom is what American soldiers fought for in WWII. The 101st Airborne was on the front line of every major battle in the European theater with enough men, weapons, artillery, ammunition, supplies, and trooper clothing to survive. The 101st was the army’s elite paratrooper division and was always on the front lines. During WWII, Easy Company, the best and the toughest, a part of the 101st, froze, starved, got covered in filth, became exhausted, and lost good men every day. They inflicted more casualties on the Germans than the Germans inflicted on the Americans or their Allies (Guarnere XX).
After that he heard someone else yell, ‘Hey, the guys in the middle are running!’ Then suddenly the airship made a very sharp downward motion above him. “It was coming down, and I started to run. I ran about 20 yards, and then heard this eerie sound of metal crunching against the ground. I stopped and turned around.” He witnessed the wreckage of the framework and people trying to escape. He saw them stumbling, falling, and burning. “It was a horrible sight. We stood for a moment and then we rushed back toward the flames, but what could you do? I tried to help, but you couldn’t get that close because of the billowing
This report is on the Crossair flight 3597 crash which happens at Zurich airport on 24th November 2001. Analysis of Crossair flight 3597 will be covered, which includes details such as facts of Crossair flight 3597 crash, and the three contributing factors involved in the air accident. The three contributing factors are mainly Crossair, pilot error and communications with air traffic controllers.
...rcraft to decent to 1,200 meters to land. So the pilot blows another chance to save the aircraft from crash landing by not resuming all the decision with the first officer. To control the decent the pilot increase the throttle of the left engine without realising it will cause a fatal blow to the engine. By increasing the fan speed caused the fracture fan blade deep into the engine and the engine started to tear apart. Then the engine loses all the power and catches fire. In desperation, the pilot try to restart the right engine with the wind mill start using the plane speed to spin up the engine blade. But it is too late because the air speed is too low. The pilot managed to stretch the glide by pull the nose up to avoid crashing into the village of Kegworth before crashing into the embankment of the M1 motorway. This accident saw 47 out of 126 people abroad died.
In this case, US Airways flight 1549 has become a prime example of a miraculous outcome of an aviation incident. For this flight both of the pilots were in good physical condition, without any external stimuli or lack of sleep taking a toll on them. This allowed them to be fully alert to perform their flying obligations. In addition to having adequate physical capabilities, these pilots were well trained in their art form, and were able to do the single most important aspect when it comes to operating an aircraft: actually flying the airplane. Once the bird strike occurred, they were able to assess the situation and remain calm while working through possible solutions. Thanks to the frequent training in accident recovery, the First Officer was able to flip straight to the engine failure checklist, which the pilots then put into action. While this was crucial, the Captain was knowledgeable and experienced enough to take the liberty of skipping over steps on the checklist which ended up making a significant difference in the end result. Amongst the various other components that went into making this flight a successful recovery, communication was probably one of the most largely influencing factors. Throughout the entire situation the two pilots had professional communication between each other and the rest of the
The future of passenger aircraft and their manufacture has an amazing outlook. Every year, the brightest minds in aviation compile the greatest technological advances towards creating the safest and most economical aircraft on the planet. No detail is over looked, and the bottom dollar is the controlling factor. From private aircraft to public aircraft, space exploration and beyond, the future is bright for the passenger aircraft market, and everyone who purchases air travel should be excited to see how the industry unfolds. Let's kick this off!
He starts out the chapter by telling two stories about airline crashes that happened in 2009 that claimed nearly 300 lives. Both of these incidents were blamed on pilot error. Throughout time aviation has become more and more automated. From the very first automated flight in 1914 to now, airlines and plane manufacturers have been working on shifting the work from humans to machines. Today, pilots only control a total of three minutes between take-off and landing. Though plane crashes have been declining, there has been this new type of crash, which is due to human
“Flight 208 to Los Angeles is now boarding. Section N you may now take your seats”. You looked down at your carry-on bag to make sure you have everything packed up, even though you took nothing out, and headed toward the flight attendant and handed her your ticket. As your walking through the tunnel, the sound of the planes jets put just enough pressure on your body, causing your pulse to increase. “Why are you nervous, you been on planes before”, you ask yourself. You shake your head and start to inhale and before you could finish getting your lungs to the maximum capacity they could hold, a man wearing a white shirt twice his size and jeans that also seemed