Us Air Flight 1549 Research Paper

The survivors of September 9, 2001 will never be the same. While they may be emotionally scarred from the traumatic event, physical scars will also remain on their body. Bruno Dillinger describes that many evacuators lacked skin and hair, and that many evacuators were severely burnt. Despite all the mayhem and chaos, the people in the stairwell kept their wits with them. They did not panic; they were calm. Bruno Dillinger’s description of the first responders walking up the stairs was heartbreaking. He commented, “They were going up to their death. And I was walking down to live.” Despite the fear the firefighters and other responders felt, they rose to the occasion in order to save the lives of many others. The bravery the firefighters and

Terrorism. Instead of hitting the White House, the plane landed in a field located in Arlington County,

passengers and make sure that the planes are being boarded with no illegal items. In 2006, there was an attempt made to detonate a liquid explosive on board a plane. This terrorist attempt enacted yet another restriction. The TSA banned any and all liquids measuring more than 3.4 ounces. (Brill) The more restrictions put on what passengers can and cannot bring on planes show in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and what changes they had on United States security. (Villemez) After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the number of air marshals aboard U.S. planes was questioned, the primary change to the Federal Air Marshal Service happened quickly after the assaults of 9/11. The U.S. had only 33 air marshals working in a full time limit on 9/11, and in the quick reaction from the assaults, the Bush Administration pushed for a huge and fast development of the program.

Where security is increased, there are delays that cause problems in other areas. With the additional delays at airports, more travelers choose to travel by automobile. Four hundred additional fatalities have occurred each year on U.S. highways since 9/11 because of increased security at the airpo1rts (Mueller 2010).

What did survive was a mountain of wreckage, fire, smoke, tail section, wing sections, cockpit, engine

Chesley Sullenberger was a pilot for Pacific Southwest airlines for twenty nine years before the Hudson River crash. He was departing from LaGuardia Airport when the plane collided with a flock of Canada Geese, causing the engines to fail. With lots of training and quick reflexes, he was able to turn the plane around and make a controlled water landing on the Hudson River, and saved all one hundred and fifty five passengers on board. He then became a hero and instant celebrity for the act and retired a year later to become an international speaker on airline safety. After thirty years as a commercial pilot, he concentrated on running his safety consulting business, Safety Reliability Methods Inc., which he founded in 2007.

(ANDERSON 1). Among those killed in the attack were cops, firefighters, EMT crew members and civilians working in the pentagon, world trade centers and plane passengers. Passengers of the 4th plane attempted to seize the plane from the terrorists later resulting in a crash landing in an empty field. Flights that were hijacked during the attack were United Airlines Flights 175 and

On Saturday, August twenty-second, a stunt plane at an air show in England crashed and killed seven people. It was said that the pilot of the stunt plane was attempting to do a loop, but lost control and crashed onto a highway. The seven people that were killed in this accident were people just driving on highway and were caught in the accident. The plane model that crashed was called a “Hawker Hunter”, and it was a plane model from the Cold War. Along with the seven people that were killed in the accident, there are around fourteen people that were injured.

I. Introduction: A. Since the attacks that took place on 9/11, the travel industry has been changed drastically, creating a sense of danger when it comes to travel. 1. The fact that traveling is seen as dangerous due to the unforgettable terrorist attacks in New York has caused many people to limit the amount they travel and the places they choose to travel.

September 11, 2001 American airlines flight 77 was in the process of boarding passengers. This flight was scheduled to leave Washington Dulles airport, in the process of boarding two of the five men were considered suspicious by a CAPPS (Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System) agent. The reasons that Nawaf al Hazmi and Salem al Hazmi were subjected to extra attention by the CAPPS agent is because one of the brothers did not have any identification and he could also not speak any english. The kicker here is that the agent on duty for CAPPS found the two men to be very suspicious. Unfortunately the only consequences of the actions taken were minute because there checked bags were held off the plane until it was confirmed that the two

“Against the Odds” is an informative text by Pearson Realize about how Sully Sullenberger faced a potential crash with 150 passengers on board when geese hit the plane and made the engines fail. Sully kept calm for the whole experience and got everyone to safety, while also keeping the plane intact. The selection states, “The plane could either land in LaGuardia or land in Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. Sullenberger knew the situation was too dire for the plane to stay in the air long enough for either plan to be successful… He’d ditch the plane in the Hudson River - despite the fact that passenger jets are not built to land on water.” (pgs. 446-447). This quote explains that instead of listening to air traffic, he thought of his own way and it succeeded. Another challenge was to get everyone to safety. Most of the passengers were out of the plane, but Sullenberger had to be sure they were all out. So he “...walked the length of the cabin twice, calling ‘Is anyone

The plane then reportedly filled with thick smoke with flames shooting from the rear of the plane. The passengers struggled to get though either the emergency exits or through holes in fuselage that were torn open due to the crash. The rescue effort was also slowed due to power outages on the field. The bay doors for the rescue vehicles needed to be open manually slowing the rescue crews from getting to the plane. Overall a total of 11 people died including Captain Richard W. Bushmann, a 20-year veteran with American Airlines. 83 of the 143 passengers were injured.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the pilots had violated numerous regulations, including failing to comply with air traffic control instructions and clearances and operating carelessly and recklessly. But the pilots said they had been so engrossed in a complicated new crew-scheduling program on their laptops -- a cockpit violation of airline policy that could cost them their licenses -- that they lost track of time and place for more than an hour, until a flight attendant on an intercom got their attention. By then, the Airbus A320 with its 144 passengers and five crew members had cruised on autopilot past its Minneapolis destination and was over Wisconsin, at 37,000 feet. It turned out the plane 's radio was still tuned to a frequency used by Denver controllers, even though the aircraft had flown beyond

A plane was downed over New York when a bird was sucked into the jet engine. Flight 1459 just

Once the nose began to lower the two pilots of USA 1493 immediately saw Skywest 5569 sitting on the runway and applied the brakes, but there was no time. At 6:07PM USA 1493 slammed into Skywest 5569, crippling the nose gear of the B-737 and igniting an explosion that resulted in the two aircraft skidding off the left side of the runway and slamming into an unoccupied fire station. 64 passengers, 3 cabin crewmembers, and the First Officer successfully evacuated the burning B-737 (NTSB, 1991, p. 8).