National Transportation Safety Board Essays

Abstract The accident on McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82, N215AA of 1991 is a good example of an aviation accident that occurred majorly due to human factors. This paper aims to analyze the main causes involving human factors that lead to the crash. The two core factors associated with the accident include; fatigue and situational stress. Both crew members sustained long duty day that exceeding the maximum waking hours. Additionally, the prevailing weather conditions placed them in a stressful environment

that led to the accident affecting hundreds of people. The Flight was operated by Air Florida and it was “Delayed by one hour and forty five minutes due to a heavy snowfall which necessitated the temporary closing of the airport” (National transportation safety board ) but it took off anyway at four o’clock in the afternoon, the aircraft stop working in midair twenty seconds after that and started to go down with no power until it hitted the fourteenth bridge and sank in the Potomac river Killing

Steamboat Springs — January 11, 2009. A single-engine plane crashed one mile north of the runway at Yampa Valley Regional Airport, YVRA, on Sunday morning in heavy snow. The two passengers, William "Bill" Rooney Jr., 54, and his adult son William Patrick Rooney III, 26, father of a year-old son and a daughter expect next month, were killed. West Routt Fire Protection District Chief Bryan Rickman said the airplane, a Pilatus PC-12 fixed-wing, single-engine turboprop aircraft, took off from YVRA

Aircraft accidents Aircraft accidents are the nightmares for both every pilot and aircraft passengers. Accidents can happen even when you least expect it which makes them even mere frightening. The reasons behind an aircraft accident can vary from situation to another but the main reasons are human error or most of the time it is caused by technical issues. In this essay I will address how accidents can happen which means I will in detail examine how accidents can happen which related to human

condition only that the accident which caused the death or injury took place on board the aircraft or in the course of any of the operations of embarking or disembarking.” There are thus 3 tenets to the rule that imposes liability on carriers. There must be 1) damage sustained in case of death or bodily injury of a passenger; 2) an accident that caused the death or injury; 3) it must have occurred while the passenger was on board the aircraft or embarking/disembarking. For purposes of this question, part

airport with enough fuel to fly to its final destination of JFK airport in New York and also to Boston airport as an alternate airport. The Boeing 707 landed at neither of these airports and finally crashed in a field killing 73 of the 158 people on board. (FAA.gov) The first factor that led to this crash was poor fuel planning. The 707 held three different times for a total of 87 minutes. (FAA.gov) During these multiple and extended holding patterns the crew failed to communicate effectively to ATC

American Airlines Flight 1420 June 1, 1999, a McDonnel Douglas DC-9-82, dispatched as American Airlines 1420, crashed after it had overran runway 4R, at Little Rock National Airport. The flight claimed the lives of 11 people, including the captain, and 105 passengers received serious or minor injuries, including the first officer and flight attendants (NTSB, 1999). According to the NTSB, this accident was due to pilot error (NTSB, 1999). This report will exam all human interaction as well as performance

Beep! Beep! A car horn just honked at you. You nonchalantly just strolled through a very busy crosswalk. All because your best friend sent you a hysterical meme on Instagram and you were dying to see it. Everyday a pedestrian is killed because they put their phone before their own lives. There have even been people who have died just from not paying any attention to the roads and being on their phones. The fact that pedestrians can’t put their phone down and get hit by a car may sound absurd, but

MECHANIC TWP. — Alcohol, speed and seat belt use, or lack thereof, all played a role in an early Friday crash that resulted in serious injury to two people. Robert Scott Huy, 29, Township Road 262, Millersburg, sustained massive head trauma and was transported from the crash scene to a helipad at the former Holmes County Fairgrounds. From there, he was taken by emergency helicopter to Akron General Medical Center, where he remained Friday afternoon. He was a passenger in a 1999 Dodge pickup truck

I. Summary Air France flight 447 leaving Rio De Janeiro, Brazil heading to Paris, France plunged into the Atlantic due to pilot error. Inexperienced pilot placed the Airbus A330 aircraft in stall condition and was unable to recover the aircraft prior to crashing in the ocean. Investigations proved that 2 out of the 3-man crew were sleeping when the airplane entered the stall condition. II. Problem Aircraft Captain did not sleep during his two night stay in Rio. Investigations show that Captain

Introduction with thesis statement (5 marks) Bermuda Triangle is the region in the Western part of North Atlantic Ocean where an unusually large number of strange accidents happened. The legend of Bermuda Triangle started when 5 Navy Avenger airplane disappeared on a training flight out of Fort Lauderdale. Over the years, many theories were proposed by researchers to explain the incidents that happened in Bermuda Triangle. There are methane gas theory, the Sargasso sea, Gulf stream, Hutchison effect

The story of American Airlines Flight 1420 begins as the sun begins to set on the first day of June in 1999, travelers of American Airlines Flight 1420 loaded up a MD-82 passenger jet in Dallas, Texas, bound for Little Rock, Arkansas. It was warm, the air muggy and the stage set for catastrophe. American Airlines Flight 1420 is often referred to as racing the storm. Along to central plains of the United States in springtime, cool, dry Canadian flows southward while sticky, sultry, unstable air lingers

about the crash from the bodies recovered from the plane, and the disturbances of the bodies, such as foreign bodies, chemical burns, and broken bones, to determine what happened during the plane crash. Roach also discusses airplane safety, including why some safety features are not supplied on airplanes. In chapter six, Roach talks about military testing on cadavers. Ballistics testing on cadavers dates back to the

Also, the NTSB stated that the crash was caused by problems in the center fuel tank (Schlager 2). The spark had followed the corroded wires to the fuel tank where it ignited the fuel to make the plane explode.Similarly, the NTSB stated”The fifteen safety issues involving the fuel tank are the maintenance and aging of aircraft systems”(Harper 2). Lastly, the design of the plane had put heat and ignition sources close to the fuel tank. Out of all of the theories on flight 800 the theory about a mechanical

would being wages along with working conditions. Once the PATCO negotiators agreed on a contract that if it were to be approved by congress would give workers great pay raises, increased severance pay, an enhanced voice in operating, also a voice in safety in making policy. The contract was rejected and

Chapter 7- The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes Malcolm Gladwell claims that one’s culture differences, such as power distance and communication, can dramatically affect the performance of a task. He uses the environment of flying an airplane to illustrate his point. It opens with Gladwell describing the problem of South Korean airlines. These airlines had a much higher loss rate than most other countries. Gladwell gathered several sources of evidence to explain this phenomenon. The first part of

Investigation Board on Lt. Lagoyda's crash. I asked him to get me the maintenance records on Captain Dunn's plane for the mission when the accident happened. I wanted to check the Part Two of the Form One on his airplane to see exactly how much jet fuel it had taken to refuel his plane after he had parked it back in the revetment that day. When the Chief brought me the Part II of the form for Dunn’s plane for the day of the Flight, my suspicions were confirmed. The Part II of the form showed it had

Flying on an airplane over the clouds, the sky would look sunny, while down below, there could be a heavy storm present. The cloud covers the passenger's’ view of the ground, but if the plane would just fly through the clouds, passengers would see that it wasn’t sunny at all. In life, a person's point of view can differ like that depending on perspective. This is how the events in The Outsiders can be seen differently. The Outsiders, a book written by S.E. Hinton, is a story about the life between

45 people were involved in the crash of flight 157. 72 days was how long these people survived in unbearable conditions. This survival story was a prime example of true perseverance. 16 people survived after 72 days because two of the men decided to make a ten day trek across the andes to find help. Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa were the individuals that decided to make the journey to find help. Their journey was successful in the end and without the decision to look for help, everybody would

Columbus and Lindbergh: A Journey Across The Atlantic Christopher Columbus and Charles Lindbergh both made astonishing accomplishments in their careers by crossing the Atlantic Ocean, one by boat, and one by plane. Columbus crossed the Atlantic by boat, and Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic by plane. Columbus had three ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. These two men crossed the Atlantic Ocean for a variety of different reasons with one objective, to do something no one has ever done