Voice Recorder, By Charlie Victor

The visual imagery I chose was, ¨The seat belt sign flickered it’s vibrant colors off, creating a swarm of people to emerge from their seats. Unfamiliar faces hustled their things and rushed out, as if their life depended on it¨ (5). This is effective because coveny´s the way I viewed the whole experience when the plane landed in Bulgaria.

Exposition: Brian Robeson, a thirteen-year old from New York, takes an aircraft that’s heading to the Canadian Woods so that he can visit his father. The pilot of the plane teaches brian to fly, but begis to have increasing pain in his stomach. At first, it doesn’t seem serious, but the pilot begins jerking in his seat, a clear sign of a heart attack. The pilot dies due to the attack, and Brian is forced to man the aircraft.

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.

“Hello Passengahs, welcome aboard American Airline flight 11 this is your pilot John Ognowski. Weah about 30,000 feet above Bahston right now, it should be a pretty quiet trip to Los Angeles, are estimated travel time is around 6 hours and 45 minutes. See ya in a bit.” I got off the intercom and asked how I sounded to my Co-Pilot Thomas McGuiness, also from the Boston Area, who grew up a southie. McGuiness, who startled me with his glasses gleaming, bright as heavens sky said, “Coulda been better.” I could tell he was a bit disgruntled. It was a fairly chilly, yet sunny day in mid-September. The aroma of fall was pungent from the fresh falling leaves. We were flying the 1989 Boeing 767 at 58 percent into the clear blue sky of North America.

The black clouds of fate came in, sealing the doom of Alaskan Airlines flight #32 as God boomed his fury through thunder, and sent a white hot lightning bolt to strike it down. The pilot came up on the intercom, yelling to all the frightened passengers, “Fasten your seatbelts and curl into a ball! We’re going down!”

On September 11th, 2001, an unexpected event happened in various parts of the country. Two planes flew into the World Trade Center’s towers, another hit the Pentagram near Washington D.C., and a final one in Pennsylvania. None of the passengers on any of those planes anticipated the crash. Although, on the other hand, the pilots of the planes did. The attacks were unexpected since, to quote Forrest Gump, “In life, you never know what you’re going to get.”

Do benevolent spirits sometimes appear to guide and protect earthly loved ones? Do angry entities, wrongly deprived of life, and trapped between astral planes, sometimes return to torment the living? Dare to know the unknowable in this chilling story of a troubled airline, an air-crash investigation and an aviation family torn apart by tragedy. For pilots, flight attendants, and the flying public world-wide, the very notion of a commercial jet being damaged on purpose seems inconceivable. However, after a highly-suspicious crash-landing of an aging 737-400 occurs, ghostly messages from beyond-the-grave begin to reveal a ruthless and sinister conspiracy where men only concerned about profits and the corporate bottom line will do anything to protect their assets, even at the expense of innocent passengers and flight-crews.

More than a decade ago, a tragic and one of the saddest incidents in our history occurred on U.S soil. On September 11, 2001 the United States were attacked by a group of terrorist who were able to infiltrate our security system from all angles. It was a very tragic event for the U.S, when terrorist attacked two landmarks in New York City, a densely populated area. Although this terrorist attack was very unfortunate, it was also the largest infiltration of the United States Aviation system through multiple breaches of aviation security. Immediately after the attack many changes were made to aircrafts and the airport system.

March 3, 1974 a catastrophe occurred outside of Paris. Turkish Airlines flight 981 out of Paris experienced a chain reaction of unfortunate events, that lead to the eventual crash of the plane, and the complete fatality of every passenger on board the plane. The DC-10 aircraft, designed by the plane company McDonnell-Douglas, crashed in a forest 10 minutes after taking off from Paris. People who have analyzed this accident, have looked into what caused this plane to crash and take the life of all 346 passengers on board? Among the analysts are three different types of accident theories that try to explain why the plane crashed and how the crash could have been avoided and spared the life of hundreds.

After months of rehearsal and preparing, it’s time for the play. My first optimistic view comes on the ship, where everyone is worrying about drowning, though Gonzalo believes there is a different fate in store for everyone.

Support the main point: The speaker goes into the airplane and waits at the end of the plane for the right altitude.

On November 24, 1971, a man going by the alias of Dan Cooper hijacked Flight 305 of the Northwest Airlines which was going from Portland, Oregon to Seattle Washington . Cooper, who appeared to be an ordinary man in his mid 40s, boarded the plane, sat in seat 18E and ordered himself a drink. The flight attendant who provided Cooper with his beverage, a Ms. Tina Mucklow, unexpectedly received a note from him which stated “I have a bomb in my briefcase. I will use it if necessary. I want you to sit next to me. You are being hijacked”.

This is chaos, a catastrophe. A commercial airliner has smashed into the side of the north tower of the World Trade Centre, right below me, for reasons unknown. I’m standing here. Right by the window, simply screaming, screaming and shouting; desperately hoping for another chance at life. Below me they’re running; they don’t see me. I’m an insignificant life, hanging out of this window, desperately begging for someone to save me. I’ll never stop. I’ll never give up. I’m a fighter, ready to keep fighting, fighting for my life.

The word ‘flight’ was terrifying. Hearing the word was like getting the worn scars on my delicate heart reopened and negligently stabbed over and over again. It made me involuntarily panic, for ‘flight’ reminded me of a monster worse than the one under the bed that I had concerning night terrors about as a toddler - a monster disguised as my abusive, bipolar, and alcoholic father who traumatized my childhood.

Even though, we are slowly but surely putting an end to terrorism in the United States because in the story by Phil Klay "Redeployment"; he uses vulgar language to get his points across. In Sherman Alexie's story "Flight Patterns”, he shows us in his story that everyone is not bad just because they are a different race. Each story allows you to visualize different points of views such as terrorism and can led you back to post 9-11 and how the world was spilt apart.