Us Air Flight 1549 Research Paper

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.

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

American Airlines flight 1420 crashed in Little Rock, Arkansas. The crash killed 11 people, after running off the runway and impacting an approach lighting structure. The causes of the crash are still being investigated but the likely causes include the plane touching down 2000 feet passed the runway threshold, the rapidly deteriorating weather, and a fatigued flight crew.

“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 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,

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

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.

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.

When U.S. Airways Fight 1549 recently went down in the Hudson River, it was big news, as well it should have been. However, like many other major news stories over the past 25+ years, reports of the downed jetliner and the successful rescue of its passengers dominated the news in such way that little else was covered over a period of several days.

As a result, a thorough investigation into this international tragedy ensued. In order for investigators to create a timeline of events, they needed to collect as much from the wreckage and surrounding areas as they could. The trail of the wreckage spread over a thousand square miles, from Lockerbie up to the coast (Ushynskyi, 2009). Overall a total of 4 million pieces of fragments were collected and investigators were able to piece 90% of the aircraft back together (Owen, 2009). Medical examiners found the victims suffered from extreme lung damage to the decompression in the aircraft. What had investigators puzzled was the lack of distress calls from the pilots, the normalcy in the flight data, and the lack of engine corrosion or distress following inspection (Owen,

It was determined that ballistic trajectory analysis was the next method to try and solve the mystery. Ballistic trajectory analysis is a computer program that uses factors of the atmosphere and the plane to trace where each object landed. This system is based on the fact that the part that breaks off first will land in the water first. The engineers used the GPS locations of each of the pieces along with the weight, speed, direction, ocean currents, and wind to determine which part of the plane broke off and therefore landed first. After performing this analysis, it was concluded that the tail end of the plane broke off first, and after they discovered this, the focus of the investigation focused to the tail. Then one day while scanning over the wreckage pieces, metallurgist Frank Zakar noticed a certain piece that had a different looking crack than all of the other pieces. When an airplane breaks in midair, many smaller pieces break off just because of the sudden force of the air acting on it, this is called an overload fracture. Overload fractures break at an angle, and up to this point all the pieces of metal that had been found had this characteristic. The new piece that was found did not have this type of character at all. The engineers examined this piece and found that it had very smooth cracking, very typical of metal fatigue. Metal

On February 1st, 1991 USAir Flight 1493 (USA 1493), a Boeing 737-300 (B-737), was on an approach into Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), as part of a scheduled stop prior to completing its journey to San Francisco. USA 1493 was piloted by Captain Colin Shaw who had over 16,000 flight hours and First Officer David Kelly with over 4,000 total flight hours. Meanwhile on the ground at LAX, SkyWest Airlines Flight 5569 (Skywest 5569), a Fairchild Metroliner, had just executed its clearance to taxi to Runway 24L from Gate 32 given by the local controller (LC2) in the LAX tower, and was holding short (NTSB, 1991, p. 5). It was now 6:03PM, about 40 minutes after Sunset, with a cloud deck at 30,000 feet and 15 miles of visibility (NTSB,

On October 21, 2009 Pilot Timothy Cheney and Co-pilot Richard Cole of Northwest Airlines flight 188 had overshot Minneapolis International Airport by 150 miles, which carried 147 passengers because the pilots had been busy using their laptops. The pilots had only received a slap on the wrists from the FAA; however their punishment should have been a bit harsher because the lives of everyone on that flight were put at risk because of irresponsible pilots.

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