Incident Command System

Historical information on the situations that occurred prior to the passing of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, was pursued by three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats. The Maddox, in response, fired 3 warning shots and the North Vietnamese boats then attacked with torpedoes and machine gun fire. In the exchange, 1 U.S. aircraft was damaged, three north Vietnamize torpedo…

All of these other sightings had their logical explanations, so what was Roswell’s. After four decades of silences in 1994 the Airforce finally explained. They said it was called project Mogul. In June 1947 the Airforce released four top secret balloons that were designed to listen for nuclear bombs 10,000 miles away. One of these balloons blew off course and became the Roswell UFO. The materials that were found matched the materials that these top secret balloons were made of. The explanation…

could not have been part of an aircraft, not part of any kind of weather balloon or experimental balloon… I’ve seen rockets… sent up the White Sands Testing Grounds. It definitely was not part of an aircraft or missile or rocket.” (“1947 Roswell UFO Incident” par. 13). Marcel further described the debris of the investigation as indestructible. As Marcel and many others swear this was the crash site of a UFO, there is also the other half that swear it is the crash site of a weather balloon. The…

Many speculate that the incident on August 4th had never occurred and most of the event was due to a faulty chain of communication and command. For instance, Carl Otis Schuster states that: “The string of intelligence mistakes, mistranslations, misinterpretations and faulty decision-making that occurred in the Tonkin Gulf in 1964 reveals…

After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in November of 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson took over as president. Due to the sudden death of JFK, Johnson had inherited many responsibilities and policies of dealing with the growing problem in Vietnam (Young 105). He continued to be involved in South Vietnam because he did not want the U.S to lose their prestige and did not want to show weakness to the Communists. By the mid- 60s, the war in Vietnam began to escalate as more troops were…

The experience of a pilot or their confidence in the years can be described as significant factors concerns but not of more weight than aviation safety when it comes to flying. It is important that the industry player, stake holders and concerned parties have an understanding and the application of aviation safety policies and practices which is key to the safety of the passengers, civilian and the plane itself. There can be a significant decrease in accidents, injuries and deaths from aero…

I got hit with a serious case of déjà vu after reading the Outliers chapter. For a while, I’ve taken interest in watching a documentary series called Air Crash Investigation. Many of the flights described in this chapter had an episode dedicated to their study that I watched several times. After reading the chapter and watching the series, I know that pilots have to be extremely alert when flying an airplane, especially in regard to their word choices. One of the flights described in Outliers,…

Both physiological and psychological human related factors have contributed to either an accident or incident within the aviation industry. The classification includes the factors that affect the mental and physical ability of a pilot to operate an aircraft. The specific contributors include workload, situational awareness, familiarity, training and experience, fatigue and memory. Situational Awareness The term describes the ability of an individual which in the case is a pilot to beware of…

National and international guidelines were prompt developed with the objective of creating a security management system able to supervise the identification of risks, and the definition and optimization of control measures. According to Tay and Carlo (2014) information to assess travelers use to make decisions about which airline to fly, and the relative importance of…

Initially Mr. Wilmot decided not to let anyone know what he saw thinking that a sight like that was seen by someone else. He eventually told the officials at the RAAF (Roswell Army Air Field) of what he had seen. Eventually when word spread of the incident, conspiracies where formed about the wreckage. The most famous being that the ship was an alien UFO, and that it had been taken to Area 51, (another government operation surrounded with alien conspiracies). But these conspiracies were not…