Malaysian Flight 370 Disappearance The 239 passengers aboard Malaysian Flight 370 had no idea what the future had instore for them on March 8, 2014. Malaysian Flight 370 which is also referred to as MH370 was departing from Kuala Lumpur and heading towards Beijing when the plane vanished. The jet had lost communication after just a little over an hour of flying. However, the plane was proven to be flying for another 6 hours after they lost contact. MH370 was said to have crashed somewhere in the Southern Indian Ocean. The search for the plane is still ongoing, and so far, investigators have only found a few pieces of debris. Malaysian Flight 370 is considered one of the most plane disappearances of the 21st century because there is still no conclusion about what exactly happened on this tragic day. …show more content…
The passengers on this missing plane were made up of 153 chinese and 38 malaysians. 7 of them were children and the rest of the passengers came from Iran, U.S, Canada, Indonesia, Australia, India, France, New Zealand, Ukraine, Russia, Taiwan, and the Netherlands. The crew consisted of Captain Zaharie Ahmed Shah who was 53 years old and the co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid who was 27 years old and accompanied Zaharie on the flight. The victim’s relatives and loved ones have a hard time trusting the Malaysian government. Most of them believe that the government is handling this situation poorly. There are also people who have suspicions about Najib Razak who is the Malaysian Prime Minister. For instance, Razak had made a speech about the flap of a wing being found and how it definitely belonged to the missing flight. However, other countries like France and the U.S. aren’t so sure that it is. Malaysian officials have confirmed that they are going to meet with China and Australia representatives to decide the future of this search for Malaysian Flight
At 9:03 United Airlines Flight 175 crashes in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the western façade of the Pentagon. While United Airlines Flight 93’ some believed it was destined for the White House, U.S. Capitol building, or other landmarks, crashes into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. At the end of this horrific terrorist attack, approximately 2,977 died. Many families lost fathers, mothers, daughters, brothers.
On June 23, 1985, a bomb was planted on Air India Flight 182 that exploded and killed the 329 passengers and crew while airborne (Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182: Final report, 2010). A second bomb at Tokyo’s Narita Airport killed two baggage handlers that were unloading luggage from a Canadian Pacific Airlines flight, the baggage was also prepared to be on the Air India flight. Sikh terrorists were responsible for planting the two bombs. In total 331 people were killed (CIIBAIF 182, 2010).
Did you know that many airplanes crash every year and it is not an uncommon occurrence. Most plane crashes are either caused by mechanical failure or by pilots. Depending on the severity of the crash usually shows the outcome of survivors. Out of almost all of the flights that have crashed this year, a flight now only known as Flight 370 was very unusual. On March 8, 2014, a tragic event has happened. An airliner that departed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had mysteriously disappeared. The plane was a Malaysia Airlines flight numbered 370 that carried 239 passengers. The plane model used by almost all airlines was a Boeing 777. The plane was heading north towards Beijing when the plane turned around
Canadian Airlines flight 003 to Narita, Japan arrived at its destination without incident. However, at 7:13 London time, a suitcase exploded while being unloaded from the plane, killing two baggage handlers and injuring others. The luggage for M. Singh was transferred in Toronto to the Air India flight. At 8:13 London time, the pilot radioed that everything was normal as the plane started it's descent into London's Heathrow Airport. Moments later, the plane exploded, and crashed from an altitude of 31,000 feet into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland. Following the crash, an unprecedented salvage operation took place, in which jet wreckage was recovered from ocean depths that had been previously unexplored. The investigation of the crash revealed the following:
However, the pair never made it to Howland Island and July 2 was the last time Earhart and Noonan were seen alive. A few miles off the coast of the Howland Islands, they had lost radio contact with the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca. Soon, the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, authorized a two-week search for the two. After a massive two week long search, they were declared lost at sea. It seems obvious to many people, that Earhart’s plane crashed in the Pacific, but there are also many others who have come up with other theories about what may have happened to Earhart and Noonan (“Amelia Earhart”).
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.
...l breakthroughs are close to confirming that the plane crashed near or even on Gardner Island, where the two eventually probably died. Many artifacts have been discovered but there is still debate and archaeologists are still searching the island at the time of this writing.
Search planes searched the Andes Mountains for several weeks, but the location where the crash landed was very remote. The search ended on October 21st 1972 when they said that there was no way that they knew anyone survived. The search only lasted 8 days, and on the 8th day they stopped due to the extreme
It was the perfect December day - sunny without a cloud in the sky, when five U.S. Navy bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. At around 3:45 pm, about an hour and a half after take-off, there was an incoming radio call from the leader of the flight (Fawcett). He reported that the plane had gotten lost and the receivers at Fort Lauderdale attempted to give helpful directions, but it was no use. The pilot started to panic, and shouted into his radio, "We appear to be entering white water!” (Fawcett). This had resulted in the loss of five Navy planes with fourteen crewmembers. In response to the accident, another Navy aircraft with a thirteen person crew was sent out to search for the missing Flight 19, but also never returned (Fawcett). This incident sparked the mystery behind the unexplainable happenings of the Bermuda
One of the disappearances involves Flight 19. “Five Avenger torpedo bombers lifted into the air from the Naval Air Station at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at 2:10 in the afternoon” (“The Mystery”). The goal of the flight was to practice bomb runs and did not seem to be unusual. The pilots consisted of all students except for one commander whose name was Lt. Charles Taylor. However, the Charles Taylor was not familiar with the area around which they were flying. Taylor then became frustrated and confused which caused them to end up miles of course (“The Mystery”). Pilot experience when flying is important and could be the reason why a flight makes it to its destination or does not. Another disappearance involves the loss of NC16002. “NC16002 was a DC-3 passenger plane that vanished on the night of December 28, 1948, during a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami, Florida” (“The Mystery”). “Investigators focused on the fact that Huber wasn’t licensed to fly in the dark, using only instruments, and that the plane had taken off from the Bahamas before sunrise” (MacGregor 38). Pilot experience and training can be seen as the reason why these flights never made it to where they were supposed to go which is explanation as to why the planes
The above mentioned airplane was a planned commercial passenger flight that took off from LaGuardia Airport, New York destined for Charlotte Douglas Airport in North Carolina on January 15, 2009. Six minutes after takeoff, the airplane was successfully abandoned in Hudson River after striking multiple birds during its initial climb out. The crew reported by radio two minutes after takeoff at an altitude of 3,200 feet, the Airbus experienced multiple bird strikes. The result of this multiple bird strikes, which occurred in northeast of George Washington Bridge was compressor stalls as well as loss of thrust in both engines. The Airbus was ditched in Hudson River after the aircrew discovered that they would not reach any airfield and turned southward. Fortunately, all the 155 passengers on board survived the accident though the Airbus was partly submerged and sinking slowly.
According to the Air Transport Action Group, there are about a 100,000 flights that depart each day. That is over 36 million flights per year (Garfors, 1). In the 1970’s there were almost 50 hijackings, but only one hijacking in the world is unsolved. The hijacking of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 baffles the experts of the FBI. On November 24, 1971, a man introducing himself as Dan Cooper hijacked a flight with 36 unsuspecting passengers.
Travelling at a speed twice that of sound might seem to be something futuristic; however, this feat has already been achieved almost 40 years ago by the world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft-The Concorde. Concorde brought a revolution in the aviation industry by operating transatlantic flights in less than four hours. The slick and elegant aircraft with one of the most sophisticated engineering was one of the most coveted aircrafts of its time. However, this was all destined to end when Air France Flight 4590 was involved in a tragic disaster just outside the city of Paris on July 25, 2000. The crash killed 113 people, but more disastrous was its impact. The belief and confidence people had with Concorde gradually started to fade, and finally Concorde was grounded after two and a half years of the crash. Official reports state that the main cause of the crash was a piece of metal dropped by a Continental aircraft that flew moments before Concorde, but, over the last decade, the report has met a lot of criticism, and many alternative hypotheses have thus been proposed.
Flight 370 was an international passenger flight that went missing on March 8, 2014. The flight was scheduled in route to Beijing, but it went missing throughout the second day after the plane took off from Kuala National Airport. At approximately 1:21 p.m., the communications and transponder signal were functioning no longer. There were no emergency calls at the time the plane had its last checkpoint. On March 24 at approximately 10p.m.Malaysia Standard Time, officials ceased the search as radio signals picked up debris found throughout a remote Indian Ocean. It is believed that all of the 239 passengers on the plane died (Preimesberger). From protests and outcries, to mourning and fallouts, it is still a distraught event that shocked the world.
Executive Summary This report will define ‘Globalisation’ and will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of internationalizing a business and then will be applied to JD Wetherspoon. The report will also look at three different countries and carry out an environmental analysis, and then conclude the next steps and what JD Wetherspoon needs to next and what country they need to merge into. JD Wetherspoon has done extremely well In the UK and therefore has the ability to merge into the three shortlisted countries especially in Germany 2.1 What is globalisation?