fifteen minutes later, at 8:14 a.m., United Airlines Flight 175 took off. This plane had sixty-five people on board and was also travelling from Boston to Los Angeles. Five minutes later, at 8:19, flight attendants Betty Ong and Madeline Sweeney, who are aboard American Airlines Flight 11 report to ground personnel that the flight is being hijacked. They reported that the hijacking took place around 8:14 a.m. Hijackers then stabbed two other attendants and pushed their way to the cockpit.…
The weather and setting of Roger Rosenblatt’s essay, “The Man in the Water,” had a prodigious effect on one particular man as well as everyone else who was involved in the catastrophic January 13, 1982 crash of Air Florida Flight 90. Due to the winter season and the weather conditions, the water in the Potomac River where passengers landed was frigid. One courageous man stepped forward and began to save as many of the horrified and dying people as he could. Since the water was so cold, it…
The Unsolved Mystery of D.B. Cooper I.Introduction A.Imagine being a flight attendant, now picture receiving a note from a passenger which indicates that there is a bomb on the plane; this is what happened to Tina Mucklow, a flight attendant and also one of the main witnesses of the D.B. Cooper Case. B.The unsolved case of D.B. Cooper is one of the most infamous hijackings of American History. C.Not only that, it’s also one of the largest and most difficult conundrums ever for the FBI.…
Pan Am Flight 299, August 3rd 1970 (Suarez). A man approaches a flight attendant and states that he wants to go to Cuba, he then pulls out a gun and bottle that he says is filled with explosives, and threatens to set them off if he does not go to the cockpit. The Premier of Cuba, Fidel Castro, was waiting when the plane landed at Havana’s airport. The only people to exit the aircraft were Captain Augustus Watkins and the Hijacker. Castro tours the exterior of the plane for around 40 minutes,…
hair. No one really knew who he was, he looked like the average person. Blending in with the crowd. Cooper looked to be in his 40’s and had light brown eyes. He seemed very calm to be skyjacking a plane. “He ordered a drink—bourbon and soda—while the flight was waiting to take off.” (“D.B. Cooper Hijacking” 2) Dan Cooper blended in well with businessmen and didn’t look like a crook.…
escaped the world for so many years. There is no proof of his true identity, but he is known as D.B. Cooper. The criminal known as “D.B. Cooper” has sparked many theories as to both his identity and his ultimate success as a hijacker. In the year 1971 flight # 305 flew from Portland to Seattle as a man going by the name of Dan Cooper ordered a whiskey and handed the stewardess a note in capital letters: “I HAVE A BOMB IN MY BRIEFCASE.…
“Jeff Skiles,” the lady at the desk yelled. I answered with a polite, “Hello.” She told me I was good to go in to see the doctor. I entered the doctor's office, but something quickly caught my eye. I saw the picture of a familiar flight, the picture made the color in my face drain and my entire body to completely turn stone cold. The picture was of Sully, my good old Co worker on that fateful day of January 15th. He was standing there in the picture staring back almost as he was saying hello.…
process of passing information and understanding from one person to another" (Theo Haimann SAY WHAT YEAR,) This report will investigate how patient 's high stress levels can negatively impact on communication, with a focus on Cannon 's ‘fight or flight’ theory, Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome theory and Lazarus’ coping strategies. Data concerning…
STRESS AND COPING STRATEGIES Module I: Stress Stress can be defined as actions and circumstances to which you cannot respond adequately or to which you respond at the cost of excessive wear and tear on the body. Stress is an emotional and physical reaction to change. Stress is defined as “The adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them” Stress can act as a creative force that increases drive and energy, but once it reaches a certain degree, the…
Stress and Child Development Stress is defined as a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation. Stress is simply produced by something that causes strong feelings of worry or anxiety (n.d.). Factors that cause stress, otherwise known as stressors, stem from problems found in life, work, etc. Stress is a response that is caused by a demand. There are those who believe that stress is introduced in adulthood, especially…