Flight 19

In 2009, during Southwest Flight 2294 to Baltimore, a crack caused an aluminum panel to tear open midflight. This occurred at an altitude of over 30,000 feet. This created a hole on the top of the 737 aircraft near the area of the tail. Two years later, in 2011 there was another skin related midair incident with a Southwest flight. During Southwest Airlines Flight 812 as it was leaving Phoenix a crack caused an opening in an aluminum panel while…

training philosophy for flight attendants called the Advanced Qualification Program, or AQP. At the time, AQP had been around for decades for pilots but only a hand full of airlines had attempted to apply the philosophy to flight attendant training. I was selected to lead the project, and after reading the material published by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) about how to develop an AQP, I discovered the majority of the guidance was not applicable to creating a flight attendant…

Forgive But Don’t Forget Forgiveness, needed by the ones who offend but can only be given to by the ones who are offended. In Judith Guest novel Ordinary People forgiveness is needed throughout by major characters and minor ones too. Guest shows that forgiveness is needed from other before you can forgive yourself through the main character Conrad. He thinks he made an unforgivable mistakes and blames himself for the result of it but he can find forgiveness through the help of a ‘ doctor,…

This report is about an in-flight breakup of the Sealed Composite’s SpaceShip Two during a test flight. The test flight and accident occurred on October 31, 2014 at 1007:32 Pacific daylight time over an area near Koehn Dry Lake, California. It encompasses background information of the aircraft involved, the pilots, and the type of test flight as well as the intended results. Sections of this report will also explain the actual crash to include elements and findings of the accident…

attention to many people worldwide. On February 6, 2017, a flight attendant noticed a girl with bruises on her body. The flight attendant proceeded to tell her where the bathroom was and she left a note on the mirror for the girl. The flight attendant asked the girl if she needed help. The girl wrote she needed help. Later, many officials were waiting for them to arrive when they landed. Saving the girl's life was important for the flight attendant. However, not every person is as lucky as this…

make more than a dozen flight trips annually. Flying may be fun and fast, but at that high altitude, the body has to acclimatize and adapt to a new environment. Frequent flyers experience jet lag and fatigue, side effects of the flight experience. While these two are the most common, flying carries other health risks. Failure to address these risks in the long term eventually makes your body vulnerable to a host of health complications. This article highlights these flight associated health…

Airline industries are on the cutting edge of human accomplishment. Just over a century ago the act of flight was something humans only conceptualized, moreover imagined what soaring through the air by way of a mechanical invention felt like. Technologies both hard and soft evolved with the invention of aircraft flight. Rapid expansion in the world’s technologies allowed for the act of flight to be possible in a relatively short time span of human history. Hard and soft technologies alike…

All of Rains life she has known her Genie as her guardian. Anything and everything Rain needed Genie was there, he was her “parents”. Rain didn’t recall much about her actual parents but she was told they had passed away when she was 3yrs old. Rain is now 15, she attends Bayside High School and comes home to her Genie, that’s normal life for her. Until now, everything is going in a downward spiral. Her grades were down, and Genie was not thrilled. As they argued over a algebra, Rain was furious…

What is Gentrification? Since the early 1970’s , American cities have experienced constant urban growth despite the Urban Sprawl which resulted in many Americans moving away from urban cities, and into low density neighborhoods. This phenomenon which intrigued many urban observers known as Gentrification, resulted in not only urban city growth, but it also had varied effects on city life, income rates and including culture. The impact gentrification leaves on many American cities differ from…

The Warpaint Emerald Dragonfly is a fascinating dragonfly. The size of this dragonfly is above the average size for the genus. Each of the four wings of this dragonfly can move independently and are powered by powerful muscles. The wings normally beat 35 times per second and propel the dragonfly to speeds of 35 miles per hour. Dragonflies have a visual field of almost 360 degrees. The legs of dragonflies are not able to walk. The Warpaint Emerald Dragonfly is about 49-50 mm long in adults.…