...Name: _____________________ Plane Crash Survival: !!! Scenario: You and your team have just been on Oceanic flight 815 and it has crashed on an unknown island in the South Pacific Ocean The plane is completely destroyed Your location is unclear because vital navigation and radio equipment has been damaged Your best estimate is that you are approximately 1000 miles South West of the nearest land You and your friends have managed to save the following 15 items, undamaged and intact after the fire 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. A sextant A shaving mirror A quantity of mosquito netting A 20 Litre can of water A case of army rations Maps of the Pacific Ocean A floating seat cushion A 8 litre can of gas A small transistor radio 4 square metres of Opaque plastic sheeting Shark repellent 1 litre of 160 per cent proof rum 30 metres of nylon rope 2 boxes of chocolate bars A fishing kit A 4 person rubber life raft 3 packs of matches Instructions: 1. In your group, you need to rank the items in order of importance. Once your entire group has decided on the order of importance, fill in your answers on the chart paper provided. 2. Each group member needs to complete the questions on the back of the page. Name: _____________________ Questions: 1. Briefly explain why your group chose the first 5 items on your list as “The Most Important.” 2. What specific contributions did you make to the group...
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...Hendrick Motorsports Aircraft Accident The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report examined the events of flight N501RH, operated by Hendrick Motorsports Incorporated on October 24, 2004 from Concorde, NC to Martinsville, VA, and its unsuccessful approach to Martinsville Ridge Airport. Several factors were determined to be as expected for a normal flight path while others were askew. The resulting deaths of the passengers onboard can be attributed to human errors and management shortfalls as there were no mechanical anomalies. Background Flight N501RH was a Beech King Air 200 manufactured in 1981 and had a total time on plane of 8,140 hours. All maintenance inspections were up to date. The aircraft left Concorde, NC on October 24, 2004 and had a flight plan to head to Martinsville Airport in Virginia. The aircraft was equipped with a global positioning system (GPS) though the database was not current making it uncertified in instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plans. Owned and operated by Hendrick Motorsports, the passenger list consisted of two crew members, six members belonging to Hendrick Motorsports and two additional passengers. Sequence of Events The aircraft departed from Concorde at 1156 en route to Martinsville. The flight was routine and all data and communications during the flight were normal. The pilot maintained all assigned heading and altitudes. No warning signs were identified until the aircraft approached the localizer...
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...I read about the Russian plane that crashed at the end of October, as a result of a bomb placed on it, at: independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/russia-confirms-plane-which-crashed-over-sinai-was-bombed-in-terror-act-a6737256.html, reuters.com/article/2015/11/19/us-egypt-crash-islamicstate -photo-idUSKCN0T725Q20151119#PJ3CrIelBmYGqRFm.97, & nytimes.com/2015 /11/01/ world/middleeast/russian-plane-crashes-in-egypt-sinai-peninsula.html. A Russian Airbus A321, operated by Metrojet, crashed soon after taking off, killing all 224 passengers and crew onboard. The plane was flying from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt to St. Petersburg, Russia. According to Hossam Kamal, the Egyptian transportation minister, “all was normal; the plane disappeared suddenly off the radar without any prior warning.” After investigations of the wreckage yielded traces of explosives, Russian security officials confirmed that the plane was brought down by a bomb. In the latest edition of the "Dabiq" magazine, the ISIS militant group claimed responsibility for the attack. The economic effects of this are that several airlines rerouted many flights to other destinations, so as to avoid flying over the Sinai Peninsula. Rerouting flights has a huge cost to the airlines. In addition, people with scheduled flights and plans over Sinai will have their schedules disrupted. Also, people will now be hesitant to fly on airlines in this region, which will cause a further loss of income to the airlines. Another...
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...On one of my many expeditions with 4 of my closest friends to the Andes, I had lost my amazing, waterproof camera in the snow. Once I realized it wasn’t in my bad, I suited back up and set off in search of it. It was early afternoon, and contrary to the forecast I had listened to, it was extremely foggy. Suddenly, I heard the noise of a plane. I looked around to see one flying unusually low. I knew it was way too close to the mountain top to be safe. I could barely see through the fog. There was a huge crash and now the plane was spinning downwards without its right wing and tail, both plummeting to the ground below. As the plane hit another mountain top, its other wing broke away. My whole body shook as I watched the wreck take place. Things were flying out of the back of the plane, and I was sickened as I realized there were people hurtling out of there. Even at the speed it was falling at, I managed to see that the plane was Uruguayan. I cringed as I thought of the people inside the plane that was charging toward the ground. With an ear-splitting sound, the plane hit snow, in a valley a ways away from where I was crouching, in complete shock. I could smell smoke and burning all the way from my vantage point. My hands were still shaking as I gathered my supplies. I looked around for the camera I had come for and spotted it. After hearing nothing but absolute silence for a whole two minutes, I started to hear yelling and screaming. The cries for help got louder, as more people...
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...So the odds are greater of you dying from toxic pollutants in plane exhaust than in plane crash. Airplane exhaust, similar to car exhaust, contains a variety of air pollutants, for example sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Scientists say that these particles that are especially small ( about a hundred millions of an inch wide ) are the main culprit in human health effects, since the particulates can become wedged deep in the lung and possibly enter the bloodstream. According to the UN's World Health Organization, the most common causes of death due to air pollution are cardiovascular and respiratory diseases like lung cancer. An aeronautical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of the name Steven Barrett used a computer that recorded records of the flights paths, the amount of fuel burned during flights, and the estimated emissions. The study also looked at how human populations are spread around the world to see how the patterns of airplane pollution might up the risk of death. Earlier studies assumed that people were harmed only by emissions from planes taking off and landing. The new research of Barrett conducted an estimated of 8,000 deaths a year result from pollution from planes at an altitude of 35,000 feet, whereas 2,000 death result from pollution emitted during take offs and landing. Areas with the most active airports most active airports are not ones that always suffer the biggest health impact. According to the study, published in the Environment...
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...ROSARIO, Gianna Lea V. Midterm paper- Film Analysis SALVADOR, Anna Christelle L. The characters, Bernie, Gayle and Bubber, had different perspective bias that their portrayed or showed in the movie. First, Bernie LaPlante, was not very traditional; he is more of a person who shows utilitarianism in his actions. When he found out that Bubber was acting as the person who helped the people in the plane crash, he did not ask him to tell everyone that it was him. He believed that it was the common good to let the people believe and still listen to the goodness of John Bubber. Second, Gayle Gayley, also portrayed consequentialism when someone was accusing Bubber of trying to steal from her while rescuing the people on the plane. She believed that even though Bubber tried to steal, his actions of saving her countered that. Lastly, John Bubber, showed the consequentialism in his actions, when he was showing unselfish acts of trying to reach out to the people. “The end justified the mean” shows that even though he lied acting as Mr. LaPlante, he was still showing acts of kindness showing his true intentions. For the autonomy of morality, the characters did not have to believe in God or the church to be able to show their morality. It was inherent in the characters for being considered as social beings. Mr. LaPlante used Morality as inner conviction, according to the five ways of looking at Morality, when he noticed that the kid needed his help. His inner peace of seeing...
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...The songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb continues to be an extremely exciting book to read. In chapters 7-9 the book picks up right where it left off. In these chapters the author really capitalizes on the suspense she left the reader in. With Lark still stuck in the plane and Joe LeDonne is stuck under the plane he found. Reading this was extremely difficult for me because I don’t handle suspense well. I found myself hanging on every word the author wrote trying to figure out how the story would play. In the new chapters my favorite story came to an end as Malcolm McCourry died. I found it touching that his son would come all the way to see his father one last time. I could not imagine how hard that would be for Benjamin after Malcolm abandoned...
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... My girlfriend, my friends, my family all attended the event. I should have been happy that moment, because I have such a good relationship with different people. I was smiling the whole time, but actually crying inside. I acted as if I was tough enough to face all difficulties which were coming, but the truth was I was not ready at all. Although it was heartbreaking, knowing I would be leaving in less than an hour , taking a flight across 7000 miles and had no idea when would I actually be able to see my friends, family again. I was not the only one who was unhappy. My mother was crying as if her eyes were swimming in the ocean. I came to face reality that I was boarding to the plane. The cool air in the aircraft at once made me feel lonely and sad. I could not even sleep for a minute on the plane, images flowing all over my head. Will people treat me the same? Will I make good friends? How are the teachers going to treat me? During the flight, I had Different questions running around my head. The first month in the states was the loneliest month I had ever experienced in my entire life. I have a relative who lives in San Diego, and I...
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...Magnum. It was a gun that could take any animal down he would come in contact with. The shopkeeper then set him up with the best scope and binoculars they had in the store. As Bill was leaving he thanked the man for all of his help. The large man said not to take this trip lightly and they went their separate ways. The two days had passed ever so quickly and it was time to get on a plane. Bills family was there to fair well him and his wife gave him a present and was told not to open it until the plane had taken off. He hugged his family and boarded the plane. Bill felt safe on this huge jet plane with so many people and decided to open his wife’s present. It was a book on survival in the wilderness. He laughed thinking he wouldn’t need it, but it would give him something to do on the long flight from New York to Nome. The book revealed all kinds of secrets on how to make it if something were to happen out there. It talked about how to make fire with your own two hands, make shelter, and ever make tools for hunting. By the time Bill had landed he had read the entire book. He stepped of the plane feeling good about the journey he and his guide would partake in. Bill was instructed to go directly to the Nome hunting outpost to meet his guide named Red. He decided to stop off in the only diner in town for some food before going to meet him. It was more of a bar than a diner, being that many of their customers were extremely hammered. A tussle broke out as Bill was finishing his...
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...There are miraculous things that happen every day in people's lives, and they try to explain what happened. Some say it is luck, but others think that it is the hand of God intervening in a person's life. The same thing can be said for Louis Zamperini and his life as written in the book Unbroken. Even though Louis did not know the hand of God was at work in his life there is evidence throughout Unbroken that suggests otherwise. Louis was stationed in Hawaii at a naval base in Oahu during WW11. At the base he was assigned to the plane nicknamed “The Green Hornet”. The crew went out on a reconnaissance mission to find another plane that was downed over the Pacific ocean. While on the mission one of the engines of the Green hornet failed and...
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...i woukd really appreciate it if you guys woulkd only show the hatchet on here thank you so ,uchBrian Robeson, a thirteen-year-old boy from New York City, is the only passenger on a small plane headed toward the oil fields of Canada. We've all been there, right? Oh, not right. Brian is on his way to spend the summer with his father, and he's feeling totally bummed about his parents' recent divorce. Brian doesn't have much time to dwell on his unhappy family situation, though, because the pilot—the only other person on the plane—suddenly suffers a heart attack and dies. Holy game-changer, Batman. Through an amazing combination of good luck, clear thinking, and readerly suspension of disbelief, Brian manages to crash-land the plane into a lake and escape with nothing more than some bruises. Still strapped onto his belt is the hatchet his mother had given him before he boarded the plane. Brian realizes he needs to find food and shelter so he can last until he's rescued. It's just like Survivor… but real and totally terrifying. With his trusty hatchet at his side, Brian finds some berries, constructs a shelter of sorts out of some tree branches and a cave (this kid was definitely a Boy Scout), and meets a bear in the woods. Woven throughout the narrative are Brian's thoughts and memories of his family, and the "secret" which led to his parents' divorce—his mother had been involved with another man before the breakup. As the days pass, Brian is attacked by a porcupine, learns...
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...jetway leading to our plane, still hot with embarrassment from yelping in front of everyone in the airport, when the Marionette from Five nights at Freddy's jumped out at me. I laughed as I walked down the jetway to board the aircraft. We were going to Chicago, because that was the only flight near Michigan. Little did i know that something bad would happen on this flight. I was a new flier in Southwest Airlines. I have never flown this airline, except for the time coming to our destination and they messed up our landing, making us flop around like ragdolls. I wasn't so sure about this airline, so I trusted them to protect me and my family as we return home. I walked into the plane and sat down in the front row by the window. My mom and sister sat down next to me and I leaned against the wall hoping that this flight would go perfectly. Cole 2 I watched the flight attendants do their demonstration and soon they were done. I went on...
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...cabin and the paranoid cabin-dweller shoots him with a 30-06 hunting rifle as the pilot steps out of the plane. A young mother wraps her newborn baby against her chest beneath her parka and heads out on a snowmobile to visit a neighbour, but when she arrives she discovers that the infant has been smothered to death, a tiny trail of blood dribbling from its nose. On Kodiak Island a teenage boy shoots his first deer, but the bullet passes through the animal and hits and kills his father, who is standing in the brush on the other side. Two girls drown while trying to canoe the Matanuska River. Piper’s father falls out of the sky. Her entire life she had been waiting for this news, though she didn’t know what form it would take. She had long since fled Alaska, but continued to watch from afar – television broadcasts, the Anchorage newspaper, emails from old friends. She marvelled at the spinning, diving, spectacular deaths. She watched and waited and wondered: how long could a daredevil like her father survive when there were so many ways to die? “Take a look at that.” The Bush pilot’s voice fills her earphones, distant and muffled as if coming from another world. The left wing dips and the small, shuttering plane leans to the side. The pilot nods downward. Far below on the Alaska tundra several bull caribou run along a thin, twisting game trail. The pilot drops the plane to get a closer look. Piper’s stomach ripples with nausea. The...
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...Title: Air Controller Discipline Probed by U.S. in Near Plane Crash Abstract: This article takes a look into the disciplinary problems at U.S. air traffic facilities. Summary: The author discusses the struggle of the Federal Aviation Administration’s efforts to reprimand air traffic controllers. About forty percent of the controllers who have come under scrutiny for their poor judgment and lackadaisical performance of their job which have resulted in tragedy and/or near mishaps were allowed early retirement or have kept their jobs. With the help of their union contract or the Merit Systems Protection Board for federal employees which was established to protect federal employees against abuses by agency management. The latest to show problems was in June 2011. An air controller near Gulfport Mississippi, who had been repeatedly disciplined, was the subject of a government safety investigation. The controller instructed two planes to take off toward each other into a near mid air collision. Another incident in which the air traffic controller was in line for termination occurred in 2009 at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, in which, a controller was blamed in part for a fatal mid-air collision because the controller was joking with an airport employee about barbecuing a dead cat while on duty. The FAA was also thwarted in attempts to fire a controller at JFK International for allowing his kids to make radio calls to aircraft. After the incident in Mississippi, the FAA suspended...
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