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    Running head: SUBSTANCE USE ASSESSMENT-FLIGHT Comprehensive Substance Use Assessment of the Character, Whip Whitaker, Portrayed by Denzel Washington in the Film Flight (2012) Written by John Gantins and Directed by Robert Zemeckis Russ Vollmer University of New England. Abstract This is a compressive substance use assessment performed by observation of the movie character, Whip Whitaker, from Flight (2012). Whip is a high-functioning alcoholic and is able to function in many areas of

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    The Fall Sioux City Crash

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    1989 Sioux City Crash" talks about the moral issues of a tail motor outline and contrasts the DC – 10 and other flying machine . As in alternate mishaps , loss of the motor ought not have brought about loss of the airplane however , as in alternate mischances , consequent harm to the DC – 10 's control framework prompted the accident.” Fielder. J.H,(1992). Causes:- - "Debate proceeds with today over the DC – 10 's security as a result of the 1989 accident of United Airlines Flight 232 in Sioux City

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    Crew Resource Management

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    Prior to 1959, faulty equipment was the probable cause for many airplane accidents, but with the advent of jet engines, faulty equipment became less of a threat, while human factors gained prominence in accident investigations (Kanki, Helmreich & Anca, 2010). From 1959 to 1989, pilot error was the cause of 70% of accident resulting in the loss of hull worldwide (Kanki, Helmreich & Anca, 2010). Due to these alarming statistics, in 1979 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) implemented

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    Denver to Portland was bombed killing all 39 passengers and the five crewmembers on board. The aircraft was a Douglas DC-6B and this time the bomber was identified to be Jack Graham who placed the bomb in his mother’s bag to collect on her life insurance. He was arrested and executed. Next come three mid-air collisions by United aircraft. The first one came on June 30, 1956 when a United’s DC-7 collided with a TWA Super Constellation over the Grand Canyon. All 128 on board both flights died and this

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    history of American Airlines On April 15, 1926, Charles Lindbergh flew the first American Airlines flight – carrying U.S. mail from St. Louis, Missouri, to Chicago, Illinois. After 8 years of mail routes, the airline began to form into what it is today. American founder C.R. Smith worked with Donald Douglas to create the DC-3; a plane that changed the entire airline industry, switching revenue sources from mail to passengers. American Airlines, Inc. (AA), commonly referred to as American, is a major

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    leaving no trace behind. Even boats sailing into these waters have disappeared without a trace. Many mysterious disappearance have happened in The Bermuda Triangle. Some of the most famous ones you might have heard of, such as; Flight DC-3, who

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    Program Review, Monitoring and Investigation (OPRMI), Fraud Investigation Division (FID) received a report of overpayment from the Economic Security Administration (ESA) for Suspected Intentional Program Violation (SIPV) for former District of Columbia (DC), Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipient, Elva Hernandez (Ms. Hernandez). The report alleged that Ms. Hernandez failed to report earned income from 7-Eleven from August 2012 through

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    On July 19, 1989 United flight 232, a DC-10 aircraft took off from Denver’s Stapleton International Airport on route to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The DC-10 aircraft was manufactured by McDonnell Douglas. It has three General Electric CF6-6 engines, two that were wing mounted and one that was tail mounted. The number two engine, located on the tail, had a pre-existing defect introduced when it was manufactured. It was known as a hard alpha inclusion which causes cracks to form early

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    Delta Air Lines began in the early 1920’s as a crop dusting operation, known as the Huff Daland crop dusting company, and was based out of Macon, Ga. This was the first agricultural flying company in existence at the time and grew into the world’s largest privately owned fleet of aircraft (18 planes) by the mid 1920’s. At the turn of the decade, co-founder C.E. Woolman lead a movement to purchase Huff Daland and re-branded the company as Delta Air Service, named after the Mississippi River Delta

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    The Flight Of The Plane

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    cause of this accident was an in-flight cargo fire that initiated from an unknown source, which was most likely located within the cargo area. (flight safety, 2006) On February 7, 2006, United Parcel Service Company (UPS) flight 1307, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-71F, N748UP, landed at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL). Its first flight had been in 1967. UPS bought the airplane in 1985. The airplane had accrued about 67,675 total flight hours and was equipped with four CFM International CFM56-2C

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