Air safety

On Friday, May 25, 1979, American Airlines Flight 191 took off from Chicago-O’Hare International Airport on a routine trip to Los Angeles International Airport. Just 30 seconds into flight, the airplane, a McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 aircraft, began to stall, which resulted in a nose dive and the aircraft crashed into an open field just 4600 feet northwest of the end of the runway. Weather conditions on the day of the flight were clear, with visibility reported up to 15 miles. The investigation into…

In an effort to improve patient safety and the quality of care provided to patients, healthcare organizations implement evidence-based best practices. Organizations also work to transform the culture of patient safety in their environment by implementing changes and involving all stakeholders such as board members to the front-line workers (Grissinger, 2010). Adverse advents unfortunately happen in all environments, the challenge is finding a strategic plan that will assist the healthcare…

assessing aircraft carriers, air traffic controls and nuclear power plants, the Resilience Engineering researchers were developing conceptualization of problem of error and its eventual consequences for interfaces design in nuclear, aviation and medicine aspects. In early 90s, HROs in relation to the thesis of a normal accident debated the outcome of their investigation whereas the resilience engineers defined the naturalistic side to cognition broaden the approach towards safety with complexity…

Case Study 1. Identify the situation, and the basic issues presented • American Airlines upgraded its reservation system, by developing an in house reservation system called Direct Connect. In making the upgrade, the company expected third-party travel operators (like Orbitz) to follow suit. • However, this new system would not rely on Global Distribution Systems (GDS), which middlemen like Orbitz used to conduct their business. So these third-party travel operators did not want to upgrade to…

1a) Air Traffic Control radar surveillance system Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. The purpose of ATC systems worldwide is to separate aircraft to prevent collisions, to organize and expedite the flow of traffic, and to provide information and other support for pilots when able. b) The operating principles of ATC radar survelliance system Primary Radar Principle: The primary radar unit has a major…

7. LEADERSHIP STYLES USED IN COCKPIT Leadership in aviation is not only important in organizational level but it is also very important in narrower sphere – cockpit. It is because in the cockpit are made main decisions upon which the flight safety depends, so and people on board lives. There captain is a leader, co-pilot is one’s follower. Like in all cases a lot of different leadership styles and combinations of them can be used in the cockpit but there I will analyze three leadership styles…

One of my duties was to review and update the DHS air surveillance requirements. The document in question was from 2012 and was general in nature. To accomplish and to understand the complexities of the task, I needed to familiarize myself with how the original DHS air surveillance requirements were generated and were each line item originated. I discussed the origination of the current requirements with the Director of Air and Marine Operations (AMO) Domain Awareness (DA) and members from…

offers unique nature resources that caters to a wide rage of adventure activities in the air, on land and by sea (Salla, 2014). Millions of tourists each year travel the long distance to New Zealand to experience its culture and countless adventure activities located all around the country. However, the adventure tourism industry has more recently had negative publicity for New Zealand’s risk management and safety measures caused by numerous accidents had by travellers in certain adventure…

Agreement between the United States of America and the Netherlands Since the September 11, 2001 attack on America, the country has viewed law enforcement and private security partnerships as essential in curbing terrorism and terror-related acts (U.S. Department of Justice, 2005). The government acknowledges that the private sector owns and protects about 85% of the nation 's infrastructure. Therefore, law enforcement agencies believe that private security partnerships are essential as they put…

Depending on what the tanker is carrying and the events surrounding when the spill transpires, there could be harmful chemical particles in the air that could become widespread in the presence of high wind, a fire, or worse yet, an explosion. With the definition of a hazardous material being “any item or agent (biological, chemical, radiological, and/or physical), which has the potential to cause…