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    people, airline owners did not pay attention to safety, it was the race for profit not safety. Customer well-being came before employee’s satisfaction or health. Consequently, there were more employees injured while working due to the lack of safety; aircraft accidents occurred more frequently and caused the death of hundreds of people, and the loss of equipment. To resolve these problems, airlines and aviation professionals around the world, with the help of the ICAO felt the need to improve safety and

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    Lindbergh`s two crashes during his flying career and helped him to increase his awareness in-flight. He graduated flight school in 1925 and, using his reputation as a cautious and capable pilot, became an airmail pilot at Lambert Field for the Robertson Aircraft Corporation of St. Louis. He carried mail between St. Louis and Chicago for several years before he saw an advertisement in the local newspaper for the Orteig Prize. A New York hotel owner Raymond Orteig offered a prize of $25,000 to the Pilot who

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    Young Jethro Creighton was given the task to go to Newton for supplies. This was his first time going to Newton by himself however, he was determined. His mother was sick and had a horrible headache that only went away when she drank coffee. As he was going along the road, an old man stopped Jethro and asked for some help. He wanted a newspaper about the Battle of Pea Ridge because his son had fought there. He would check the list of the soldiers who had died to see if his son had survived. Jethro

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    China Airlines flight 611 was a regularly scheduled flight from Taiwan International Airport to Hong Kong International Airport. The Boeing 747 flight took off on schedule and departed over the Taiwan Strait between China mainland and the island of Taiwan. Around 20 minutes into the flight the airplane obliterated without warning and crashed into the Taiwan Strait. There were no warning signs to the disaster, and this made discovering the cause very difficult. Engineers began recovering parts

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    On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 disappeared over the South China Sea while carrying 239 passengers and crew from 14 different nations. The Boeing 777 aircraft vanished without a distress call 94 minutes after taking off, while making a scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China. The reasons why Flight MH 370 disappeared are still a mystery to this day. It stands as the most expensive search in aviation history, spending $160 million spanning over 46,000-square

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    off my professional career on May 26th 2002 at the age of 18 as an Aircraft Mechanic (Crew Chief) in the United States Air Force Active Duty Component. My first assignment with the Air Force was Yokota Air Base Japan with the 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron where I fulfilled the role of Flight Line Crew Chief and later the 374th Maintenance Squadron where I worked in an Isochronal Inspection hangar performing scheduled aircraft inspections and maintenance. In Yokota I worked on C-9 Nightingale

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    United 93 Essay

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    paper 3 United 93 is a 2006 film written and directed by Paul Greengrass. It is about the Flight 93 which is hijacked on September 11, 2001. The flight is supposed to fly from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco, California. However, during the journey, four terrorists hijack the plane. They plan to destroy the United States Capitol building in Washington D.C., but finally it crashes in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, nearly 150 miles away from Washington. United 93 is one of four planes being

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    The college I have chosen to attend for aviation is Arizona State University. After being accepted into the school there is another application for the Professional Flight program which requires a two paragraph essay on why you have chosen this major, a physical done by an FAA certified doctor, and other general information. One of the more helpful things about this course is that your class selection is done for you for the most part. All the required classes are picked out for you so that you know

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    Yb-49 History

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    In 1946, the US Air Force began a program in secret, a program that would push the boundaries of aviation into the stratosphere. It was a hugely expensive undertaking which would require creative accounting and the full financial strength of the US government. Tens of thousands of engineering man hours, many lives, years and careers would be consumed in the attempt to unravel the secrets of flight at supersonic speed. The program was conducted in relative obscurity, far from prying eyes, in California's

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    We learned about our flight cancellation during the afternoon hours on Monday the 28th, which was cancelled due to bad weather in Chicago and other parts of the country. We tried to contact the American Airlines by phone, after 45min of waiting in line to speak with a representative we talked to an agent, but she wasn't able to find a flight that would take us to Chicago anytime soon so we decided to head to the Phoenix airport anyway, in the hopes that we can be rescheduled, put on another flight

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