A National Transportation Safety Board Investigation Into The Crash

Thus, being the busiest rail and perhaps the most important for both the residents of Graniteville and Avondale plant, many trains traveled through the town daily conducting business. Nonetheless, for successfully deliveries, a switch connecting the spur to the mainline railway had to be manually turned towards the proper route. Failure to do so called for an eventual accident. Consequently, the train crash happened as a result of someone forgetting to flip the switch disconnecting the spur from the main line. Causing Freight Train 192 to divert from its route.

Making sure that a technical document meets the needs of its intended audience is crucial to successfully facilitate the communication of concepts and ideas. In order to meet these needs, they must be clearly identified and specifically addressed. In the article “COLUMBIA ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION BOARD”, the audience’s identity, needs, personality, and expectations are all clearly defined and addressed.

You were in a terrible car accident. One that sent you into that putrid hospital across the street from Walmart where all the stoners hung out. Of course, even the paramedics were incompetent in your town. They were trying, I guess. They were able to successfully pull you from your collapsed car that had been flipped over seven times. Or so you were told. Well I guess you weren’t told, but you overheard. You were unconscious, but you had full capability of your hearing, only you had no way of communicating this. You were around the clock fed heavy sedatives through the IV tapped to the inside of your limp arm.

The Car Crash Study was done in 1974 by Loftus and Palmer that was aimed to test their theory that the language used in an eyewitness testimonies can alter the eyewitness’s memory of the event. They got 45 American students and showed them 7 films of traffic accidents, ranging from 5 to 30 seconds, in a random order. Afterwards the subjects were asked to describe what happened as if they were at the accident. They were then asked more specific questions such as, “About how fast were the cars going when they (smashed/ collided/ bumped/ hit/ contacted) each other?’. This was to see if the if the verb used in the question would affect the answers given by the subjects which it did. In the next part of the experiment they showed 150 students a one-minute film that showed a car driving through the country side followed by four seconds of a multiple traffic accident. Afterwards they split the students into three groups and asked them different questions. The first group was asked “How fast were the cars going when they hit each other?”, the second group was asked “How fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other?”, and the third group was kept as a control group and wasn’t asked anything. One week later they were asked, without seeing the film, ten questions about the film. One question asked “Did you see any broken glass? Yes or No?” which there was none. The results showed that more participants who were asked “How fast were the cars going when they smashed?” said

Two months after the 9/11 attacks, congress passed Aviation and Transportation Security Act, which created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and federalized airports. Prior to 9/11 airport security was outsourced to private companies with very lackadaisical regulations. The TSA and the Federal Air Marshall Service (FAMs). 9/11 affected all aspects of travel, even railways. Since 9/11there have been multiple attacks against transit systems including Moscow, Madrid and London by terrorist cells either affiliated or sympathetic to al Qaeda. President George W. Bush signed into effect the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA).

My class just read Night of the Twisters which was a series of bad tornados, speaking of tornados, the worst recorded was the 1925 Tri-State Tornado. The Tri-State Tornado included details common to tornados and caused damage and destruction to property and lives that affected the region, but the area has recovered in its aftermath.

Antonette Wright, Housekeeping trainee fell and injured her back while on duty on July 18, 2016. The current Indemnity present on her file is however not valid due to it not being singed by the school and Jaynard Carter being listed as the Assistant Human Resource Manager. The school was notified of her injury and we are awaiting feedback form them.

The first bomb occurred on Parnell Street near the intersection with Marlborough Street, it occurred at about 17.28. The car was parked outside the Welcome Inn pub and Barry's supermarket at 93 and 91 Parnell Street in a parking bay and also near petrol pumps. Shop fronts had been blown out and cars were destroyed. The bomb car was a metallic green 1970 model Hillman Avenger, registration number DIA 4063. It had been facing toward O'Connell Street, Dublin's main thoroughfare. This car, like the other two bomb cars, had its original registration plates. It had been hijacked in Belfast that

he honor winning film Crash, coordinated by Paul Haggis, takes after the life of different characters whose lives interlock over the time of thirty-six hours. Every one of the characters of the film all originate from various societies, ethnicities and foundations. The film conveys to light the racial, preference and ethnic generalizations that individuals may quietly accept however surface in various routes with the collaborations of others in the public arena. One of the characters, Officer John Ryan has been an Officer of the Los Angeles police division for more than seventeen years. Officer Ryan over utilizations his energy as a cop adversely. Officer Ryan is bigot and preference which is appeared through his use of dialect, activities towards African Americans and how he is seen by the general population around him.

After World War I in 1918, many of the pilots who served in the military turned their talents towards civil uses. The first civil applications of aviation was providing air transportation for the United State mail. According to Airport Planning and Management, Civil Aeronautics Board or Civil Aeronautics Administration was formed to regulate air carrier industry and safety. Later Civil Aviation Board was transformed into Federal Aviation Agency. It had all the functions of Civil Aeronautics Board except the safety rule-making powers. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was formed in order to determine the cause or probable cause of transportation accidents (Young, 2011).

According to the most recent Federal Railroad Administration’s (FDR) Office of Safety Analysis, the total number of railroad accidents to occur in the United States between 2006-2015 was 113,302, resulting in 7,146 deaths and 80,661 injuries (Federal Railroad Administration, 2015). The most recent event to occur was on May 12, 2015 when a train traveling more than 100 mph on a curve derailed and crashed in Philadelphia killing eight people and injuring more than two hundred. Investigators determined that the train was traveling far above the required speed limit of 50 as it neared the curve. Traditionally, to ensure operational train safety on different sections of tracks, engineers and maintenance crews rely on movement authority

Crew resource management started with a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), proposal made amid their investigation of the United Airlines Flight 173 accident. In 1978, over Portland, Oregon where this aircraft and crew ran out of fuel while the captain was trying to fix landing gear problem and ignored repeated hints of other crew members telling them that they are dwindling fuel supply. Only when the engines began to flame out the captain realized their horrible situation. Bad communication and loss of situational awareness led them to crash over six miles short of the runway, killing approximately 200 passengers. CRM was born from this catastrophe because investigators discovered that most of air crashes was caused by human error

Last night, a Boeing 747 has made an astonishing landings without any landing gears due to the pilots skill.

Day 1: I awoke covered in sand with the sun beating down on my face. Looking into the vast ocean upon me I knew I had survived the plane crash, but how could I have ended up on this mysterious island? I sat there for a moment trying to piece together what had occurred. It was June 17, 1979 and I was on a plane heading to Bosnia for a mission trip when the plane encountered engine problems. There were several loud booms coming from the cockpit when suddenly a huge explosion rips through the fuselage tearing the aircraft into several pieces. At this point I was sure death was upon me. Somehow, I managed to survive the plummet into the ocean and swim to a piece of debris floating in the water. This was the last thing I remember until waking up on the shore. God sure must have been looking out for me to have survived that crash!

Following the in-flight disintegration of the Kanishka, most of the aircraft came to rest on the ocean floor almost 7,000 feet below the surface. During the accident investigation that followed, the submerged wreckage was surveyed, photographed and videotaped, and pieces were recovered off the ocean floor. Floating wreckage was also recovered and examined. Each piece was given a unique number called a “target”. The RCMP returned to the crash site for two subsequent salvage operations in 1989 and 1991 during which further underwater video footage was captured and further wreckage recovered. Of the 465 targets observed on the ocean floor, 159 were positively identified as aircraft components or as coming from particular parts