Alaska Airlines Flight 261

Thomas had just arrived in the Reno-Tahoe international airport. He was with his Aunt Sandy and Uncle Dan. They had just arrived because they were going to see Sandy’s son graduate Top Gun school. Mark, Sandy’s son had been in the Navy and was a Lieutenant. He got chosen to be one of the best 1% of the navy’s fighter pilots. He had gone through the school and was graduating the next day. He was flying a F-18 Super Hornet. When Thomas heard about the trip he knew he had to go. He loved aviation. His mom said he could not go but one day before he left for school he left a note on the counter that changed his mom’s mind. His aunt got him a ticket and they left the next day. Thomas was waiting at the gate to thank the man that had given up his

2,996 people were killed in the tragic accident of September 11, 2001 (How Many People Died in 9/11). Many people died because of two airplanes that got hijacked and hit the well known Twin Towers in New York. New York’s horrible accident caused a lot of chaos, disaster and broken families, yet many ask these questions “What was 9/11? What happened in 9/11? Who was Osama bin Laden? How did it happen? Why did it happen? And what were the consequences or results of this tragedy?” Therefore, the tragedy of September 11, 2001 had many causes, effects and security changes for the United States.

This crash is considered to be the second deadliest aviation accident at the time in the US.

On July 19, 1989 United flight 232, a DC-10 aircraft took off from Denver’s Stapleton International Airport on route to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The DC-10 aircraft was manufactured by McDonnell Douglas. It has three General Electric CF6-6 engines, two that were wing mounted and one that was tail mounted. The number two engine, located on the tail, had a pre-existing defect introduced when it was manufactured. It was known as a hard alpha inclusion which causes cracks to form early in the lifetime of the fan disks. However, the cracks were too small to detect by the naked eye and overtime grew to a size large enough to bring the plane down on that fatal day.

On July 19, 1989, United Airlines, Flight 232, a McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 experienced a catastrophic failure of the No. 2 tail-mounted engine during cruise flight. The separation, fragmentation, and forceful discharge of stage 1 fan rotor assembly parts from the No. 2 engine led to the loss of the three hydraulic systems that powered the airplane's flight controls. The flight crew experienced severe difficulties controlling the airplane, which subsequently crashed during an attempted landing at Sioux Gateway Airport, Iowa. 111 people were fatally injured (NTSB, 1991).

Flight is a novel about a adolescent Native American boy, named Zits because of his face, who gets moved around from foster home to foster home, “crashing” through each one, and has closed his mind to the idea that some foster parents are trying to help him. Then, later in the book, after he shoots thirty or so people in a bank, is transported through time and different bodies, and learns how to turn his life around with the knowledge he amasses from what he sees and does in these different bodies. In one especially striking scene, Zits has traveled into the body of a young Indian boy at war. He wakes up in the middle of a large Indian bivouac. He then realizes that it is a camp from the battle called “Custer’s Last Stand”. Zits recalls that in this battle the Indians prevailed against Custer’s cavalry. Then, as he stands in the middle of the camp, the father of the boy whose body he’s in comes over. Since Zits never had a real dad, the love this man is showing to him, even just something small, feels tremendous. Zits thinks as the man picks him up and hugs him, “As long as I’m this kid, this man is my father. And since I never knew my real Indian father, I feel like I’m going to explode. I want to hug this guy forever and forever” (64). This quote quite clearly shows that Zits needs someone to love him desperately, and that he will latch onto any small amount of affection he gets.

On 16 August, 1987 at approximately 8:45 pm, Northwest Flight 255 took off from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Michigan. After liftoff the plan began to roll from side to side being less than 50 feet above the ground and was unable to climb to a higher altitude. Due to the plane rolling from side to side, with the left wing striking a light pole causing it to catch fire and disintegrate. This caused the plane to roll approximately 90 degrees to the left where it struck the roof of a rental car company before crashing into a roadway where it struck vehicles before breaking apart with the fuselage hitting a railroad overpass and the I-94 eastbound overpass. 148 out of 149 passengers, all six crew members were killed by the crash

On 1st of February, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia exploded when it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere after finished a 16 days mission in space. All seven astronauts were dead because of this incident. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had stopped the space shuttle program for more than two years to investigate this tragedy. In the 16 days period, the astronauts did approximately 80 experiments on different categories, for example, life science and material science [1]. An investigation later has found out that the disaster was caused by a problem on the day that took off on 16th of January.

On September 8, 1994, USAir (now US Aviation routes) Flight 427, the Boeing Model 737-3B7 (show 737-300 arrangement flying machine), N513AU, smashed when making a trip to arrive at Pittsburgh Global Air terminal in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Flight 427 has worked under the arrangements of 121 segments, "Operation Necessities: Residential, Banners, and Extra Operations," Title 14 of the Government Aeronautics Control Code (14 CFR 121), as a local traveler flight planned from Chicago O'Hare Universal Airplane terminal at Chicago, Illinois to Pittsburgh. The flight left at around 1810 with two pilots, three flight specialists, and 127 travelers on load up. While moving amid the approach, the plane enters uncontrolled plummet and the influenced

17 minutes after entering the Earth’s atmosphere in the Columbia Space Shuttle, 7 NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) astronauts were disintegrated above Texas. On February 01, 2003, the mission, STS-107 was nearly complete. The Columbia Space Shuttle crew of Rick Douglas Husband, William “Willie” Cameron McCool, Michael P. Anderson, Ilan Ramon, David McDowell Brown, Kalpana “KC” Chawla, and Laurel Blair Salton Clark were in the midst of a routine landing and completion of their mission at the Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle and it’s crew began entry into the atmosphere at 8:43 a.m. EST and within 17 minutes, the shuttle was destroyed all were dead. Initial reaction to the tragedy sparked rumors of a terrorist plot; nevertheless, an investigation was launched to determine the true cause and the events leading up to the catastrophe. Unbeknownst to the public, a section of foam insulation had fragmented from the propellant tank and struck the left wing during takeoff, 15 days prior. NASA management drew fierce criticism and condemnation, as the flaw was detected by NASA immediately after takeoff, but nothing was attempted to correct it. During their descent through Earth’s atmosphere, the crew aboard the Columbia Space Shuttle were relaxed, even joking and filming videos—completely oblivious to their impending, imminent deaths at the result of human and technical failures.

My story begins on a plane ride from Florida to New York. Me and my pal Rick were going to take a trip to South America for a vacation. We were really excited for our trip, we had been planning it for weeks.

Two local men were knocked to the ground this morning when a vintage airplane jumped the wheel blocks at the Rand Airport.

On February 1st, 2003 seven Americans lost their lives while returning to earth after finishing a mission for mankind. These Americans were aboard the space shuttle Challenger that broke apart during reentry into the earth’s atmosphere and was completely destroyed. After an extensive investigation the cause of the accident was determined to be the result of a hole that was punctured into the leading edge of the aircraft during takeoff (NASA). This hole resulted in an excess heating on the leading edge of the wing and then the failure of the wing. This was just the physical cause of the accident that destroyed the shuttle. There were other aspects

The plane crash occurred on February 12, 2009, approximately 22.17 EST, when the turboprop Bombardier, Colgan Air, Inc., was executing the flight 3407, approaching to the international airport in Buffalo, New York. He crashed into a house in Clarence Center, (NY), five nautical miles to the northeast of the landing site, killing a man on the earth, the passengers and flight crew. Altogether, this tragedy claimed the lives of fifty people. The airplane was destroyed after hitting the ground and because of the fire, which started after the crash. That night, adverse weather conditions have been observed. The forecast for wind up to 15 knots and snow showers. At the same time, the weather documents for crashed Flight did not include any advice on the airplane management in hard weather conditions, which would have informed the pilot about the specifics of such phenomena. One of them was the rime icing of the plane caused by decreasing altitude. (National Transportation Safety Board, 2010).

The flight was scheduled to be an on-demand passenger charter flight from Teterboro, NJ to Chicago, IL and was operated under Part 135 by Platinum Jet Management, LLC out of Fort Lauderdale, FL under the auspices of a charter management agreement with Darby Aviation. Platinum Jet Management was hired for this flight by the brokerage company for a charter customer. The pilots and cabin aide were notified of the flight on February 1st and later that day traveled out of Fort Lauderdale, FL to NJ arriving slightly after midnight. On February 2nd, both pilots performed a preflight inspection of the aircraft with no discrepancies noted and monitored the airplane as the line service technicians topped off the fuel. The passengers arrived between 0630-0705 only carrying light baggage such as coats and brief cases (NTSB, 2006).