National Transportation Safety Board

The reason why Harrison Ford’s plane crashed has been determined, according to Radar Online, August 5, 2015. The National Transportation Safety Board found the carburetor’s main metering jet was loose. This allowed too much fuel to flow, which led to the loss of power. This vital piece is necessary for the plane to run as it mixes the proper amounts of gas and air of the engines operating speeds. They believe the part loosened over the years stemming from the time when the plane was rebuilt and restored 17 year ago. The National Transportation Safety Board believes that because there was no manual of instructions on maintaining the main metering jet. So, in the past 17 years, the part was not checked for safety measures. Another problem cited…

Analysis of the Crash The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the likely cause of the crash was that both pilots were fatigued (NTSB, 2010). Both the pilot and first officers failed to respond and correct a stall during snowy weather that the airplane could not recover from. Other contributions to the accident were the flight crew’s failure to monitor airspeed in relation to the rising position of the low-speed cue, the flight crew’s failure to obey sterile cockpit procedures,…

Airline Industry The United States remains the home of the world 's biggest airline industry and air travel continues to be the safest form of intercity transportation in the United States. Approximately 2 million passengers and 50,000 tons of cargo are transported via the U.S. airlines every day. The industry is also responsible for influencing $1.5 trillion in United States economic activity and currently provides more than 11 million jobs (Airlines.org, 2016). Flight schools across the…

of the 12 flight attendants, and 1 of the 4 flight crewmembers received serious injuries. The other 248 passengers, 4 flight attendants, and 3 flight crewmembers received minor injuries or were not injured (NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD [NTSB],…

The article referenced the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Department of Agriculture, and StataCorp. These references are outdated, but the information is reliable. Source Seven Website "Distracted Driving." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 07 Mar. 2016. Web. 01 Dec. 2016. The publisher is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading national…

An Aerospatiale AS 355 Helicopter went down Oct 17 in Erwinna, PA killing pilot. The helicopter went down after the Doug Brigham, the pilot, lost control of the flight. According to a final accident report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Brigham intended to depart on a scheduled repositioning flight from a Helipad behind Brigham’s home to an airport located 25 nautical miles southwest. A handheld GPS device recovered from inside the helicopter shows that Brigham flew only…

Again because the crash had no evidence to point to explosives the next thing up had to be a mechanical issue. Researchers believe it would highly be something with the fuel being low and causing a disruption because the pilots last word was “Look at that crazy low fuel indicator on tank 4” (Smith). Two minutes later the plane exploded. Investigators dug deeper for any other evidence but yet again came up empty. In the following year after flight 800 “The NTSB further provided fifteen more…

In 2008, the National Safety Council developed a table illustrating the odds of dying over a lifetime; they determined, a person has a 1 in 98 chance of dying in an automobile accident, while the same person has a 1 in 7,178 chance of dying in an aircraft accident. This means a person is about 73 times more likely to be killed on the road than in the air (Locsin, 2008). The unavoidable problem of perception in aviation is that, unlike auto accidents, air disasters result in a far greater loss of…

In today’s aviation world, aircraft are designed with multiple systems to aid aircrew with all aspects of flight; however, the only factor that aircraft manufacturers can’t eliminate is the integration of human error. “Human errors represent the mental or physical activities of individuals that fail to achieve their intended outcome”*. In order to properly predict human error factors we must first understand some factors that make up human error, such as “fatigue” and “situational stress”.…

a Starbucks. As I walk up to the counter I order my favorite drink, a vente caramel macchiato, I notice the New York Times newspaper. Knowing I’m going to be here for a while I pick one up and pay for that also. Making my way back to the gate, I find a nice quiet seat by the window to fully relish my coffee and the paper. As I take a sip, I glance down at the paper reading the front page headline. “Plane crash in Indonesia, Kills all 500 aboard.” I say out loud, “Wow! Isn’t this a great article…