“Jack Lengyel: We Are.. Young Thundering Herd: Marshall!”.

The American Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying 143 passengers attempted a landing in fierce winds just shy of midnight on June 2, 1999. As the flight was en-route to Little Rock the Air Traffic Control (ATC) facility at the Little Rock Airport reported to the pilots that a thunderstorm had moved into the area with strong

The odds that someone will die in a plane crash are 1 in 11 million (Bowman). Unluckily for the passengers of Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800, they beat the odds. TWA Flight 800 mysteriously exploded just minutes after takeoff. The plane’s crash has peaked the interest of theorists for decades. The mystery behind TWA Flight 800 can be summed up in two theories: Mechanical failure, and a surface to air missile.

Contributing to the cause of the accident was the Cherokee pilot’s interrupted radio transmission, which led to the Beech 1900C pilots’ misunderstanding of the transmission as an indication from the King Air that it would not take off until after flight 5925 had cleared the runway. Contributing to the severity of the accident and the loss of life was the

In Loose Change part 2, flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. At the crash site there is no evidence of flight 93 just a little crater that shows that the plane pould of had to hit the ground at a vertical dive. Before the crash there were three out of many eyewitnesses who were talked to. Susan Mcelwain, said she saw a white plane flew over her and her van, she said it was about 40 ft. above her and she didn’t here a noise. She said it looked like a military plane, as she watched it fly behind tree’s and heard an explosion she thought it crashed, until the FBI told her there was no other plane around there, only flight 93. Then later the FBI changed there story and said it was taking pictures of the crash site. Tom Spinelli and Lee Perba said they had also

Asiana Airlines Flight 214, which crash-landed in San Francisco on July 6, had one unexpected casualty this week. On Friday, local television station KTVU aired what it thought were the names of the airline pilots. Unfortunately, the names turned out to be pure fiction: Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow. The station quickly realized it had been pranked and issued an apology, but it was too late: word of the blunder spread all over the Internet. Later, the National Transportation Safety Board revealed that one of its summer interns had confirmed the fake names to the station.

Through the overcast skies appeared a silver bomber, the largest aircraft anyone had ever seen. It was the Boeing B-29 Dinah Might, crippled in a raid over Tokyo, seeking an emergency landing on the island's scruffy main airstrip. As the Americans in the vicinity held their breaths, the big bomber swooped in from the south, landed heavily, clipped a field telephone pole with a wing, and shuddered to a stop less than 50 feet from the end of the strip. Lt. F. Malo and his 10-man crew were extremely glad to be alive, but they did not stay long. Every Japanese gunner within range wanted to bag this prize. Mechanics made field repairs within a half-hour. Then the 65-ton Superfortress lumbered aloft through a hail of enemy fire and headed back to its base in Tinian Island. The Marines

Lastly, the fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The flight that crashed was United 93. The hijackers intended to hit the white house, but passengers rebelled against the hijackers because they were concerned about the president's safety.(complex). Many passengers called family members to tell them what was happening. Forty people were killed in the crash. (simple)

“I ought to be chief...because I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp” (Golding22). The characters in Lord of the Flies by William Golding go through changes, especially Jack Merridew. As the story builds up, he exchanged his innocence with the savagery and discipline with the rebellion. Also, he lost his sense of civilization. At the beginning of the novel, Jack wasn’t capable of hunting, instead he was a reasonable leader and law-abiding. However, toward the end, not only did he kill a pig, he was determined to kill the boys. He rebelled through liberating the restrictions- eventually becomes the symbol of evil.

5 years ago, a Fed-Ex 88 plane had gone missing over the Pacific Ocean. It was not confirmed what the cause of the crash was, but it was most likely be by stormy weather conditions. The plane had departed from Memphis, Tennesse and was heading to South America. The plane was carrying 2 pilots, 2 co-pilots, and a Fed-Ex employee, Chuck Noland.

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

On December 1945, five Navy Avenger torpedo bombers with fourteen men together named Flight 19 left Fort Lauderdale in Florida. Charles C. Taylor, the leader, became lost due to compass malfunctioning. All five “flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea” (History.) The same day, a rescue plane and a thirteen man crew disappeared.

On June 1st, 1999 American Airlines flight 1420 experienced a tragic accident that claimed many lives and made an impact on aviation worldwide. The event and it subsequent investigation shed

First, Thomas Root was boarding on a routine flight at Washington, D.C. on July 20,1989. He was going to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, just 156 miles away. Next, Root was having chest pains and radioed it. The Federal Aviation Administration heard his message. They said they sent a Air Force rescue plane after him, but he did not respond. He had gone out to the cockpit. Then, the plane ran out of gas and dropped from the sky. Shortly, it hit the water, it was a brutal crash. they thought he was going to die. But Root was alive swimming towards them. He said he had trouble breathing. The medics saw a wound in his stomach. He had been shot, three bullets entered his stomach. Finally, he had tried to kill himself. But Root flatly denied that

There are several causal factors that led to this event. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable causes of this accident were “the flight crew’s failure to discontinue the approach when severe thunderstorms and their associated hazards to flight operations had moved in the airport area, and the crew’s failure to ensure that the spoilers had extended after touchdown. Contributing factors of the flight crews determination to land in the inclement weather are: (1) impaired performance resulting from miscommunication associated with the intent to land under the circumstances, (2) continuation of the approach to a landing when the company’s maximum crosswind component was exceeded, (3) failure of the spoilers to deploy, and (4) use of reverse thrust greater than 1.3 engine pressure ratio after landing.” (NTSB, 2001).

On February 6th, 1958, the Manchester United soccer team were flying back from playing a European Cup match against Red Star Belgrade in Yugoslavia when their charter plane crash-landed in Munich, Germany after a short refuelling stop. The crash claimed the lives of 23 people including 8 Manchester United players and three club officials. Other people who died in the crash were eight journalists, a travel agent and two crewmembers, one of which was the captain. In addition, Matt Busby United’s manager, was seriously hurt in the crash while Bobby Charlton only sustained minor injuries.