National Transportation Safety Board

The Problem: The Haitian Cholera Outbreak We have made many leaps and bounds towards a healthier future, mostly in part due to scientific research, immediate international cooperation, and the proper allocation of resources. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has tracked and confirmed the eradication of worldwide diseases such as smallpox. This also includes the reduction in prevalence for diseases such as measles through aggressive immunization campaigns. We have come to address the…

Introduction Motor vehicles are a common mode of transportation to travel to work, school, and social activities. Vigilance in visual, auditory, and tactile senses are necessary to safely arrive at each destination. There are many distractions that may hamper these senses such as mobile phone usage while driving. The utilization of cell phones while driving ranges from hand holding to wireless free talking, texting, posting on social media or using apps. This habit temporarily distracts the…

aeronautical engineers, and remote sensing experts have a tall order to fulfill. Goal number one for this team is to create an equivalent or better level of safety with their drone delivery system. This teams hard work now will prevent their legal team future headaches. The American public will be quick to sue in cases in which their safety, property, or privacy are put into…

Subject of Quantum Teleportation “Beam me up, Scotty” Captain James T. Kirk exclaims, as he narrowly escapes a macabre fate at the hands of the Klingon army. A beam of light is cast down onto the captain, instantaneously transporting him aboard the safety of his own starship. This technology, employing the use of teleportation, has saved many U.S.S. Enterprise crew members lives’ throughout countless episodes of the Sci-Fi TV series Star Trek. Teleportation being largely fictional at the time of…

The DC-10 is jet airliner manufactured by McDonnel Douglas. It featured an unusual three-engine design, with two turbofan engines mounting on the underwing pylons and the third at the base of the vertical stabilizer. Also unusual is the DC-10’s outwardly opening cargo door. Most planes have their cargo doors swinging inwardly to utilize the pressure difference between the thin atmospheric air at altitude and the pressurized fuselage to keep the cargo door solidly in place. However, McDonnel…

as a barber and was also a member of the NAACP. One year after their marriage, Mr Parks helped the Mrs. in getting her high school diploma. After she had worked for her education, she became a seamstress. Even though her husband feared for Parks’ safety, she became a founding member within the civil rights movement. She accomplished this by becoming a member of the NAACP Montgomery chapter and soon became the chapter…

The first law that was formulated included the various measures to consider when building schools. The laws were made based on the experience of the Collinwood fire and for the promotion of students’ safety. Major laws were based on the construction strategies. In each school, there were supposed to have iron staircases, unobstructed pathways, putting concrete floors, using coverings to protect pipes and locating doors in front of the stairs (Cote &…

INTRODUCTION OF TARGET COSTING The term “target costing” was born in Japan on 1963. It has already been passed for over 40 years. It was developed by TOYOTA Corporation in the beginning of 1960s and since then, it has been used by the Japanese automotive industry in general (Afonso et al., 2008). Target costing can be defined as a cost management tool to reduce the overall cost of a product over it’s entirely life cycle with the help of production, engineering, research and design, marketing…

In New York On September 11, 2001 the world was faced with devastation. At approximately 8:45am a plane crashed into the North tower in the World Trade Center. At the time everyone was confused as what was going on. The people of New York thought that the plane lost control somehow and crashed right into the North tower. But at 9:03am that was when a second plane crashed into the south tower. New Yorkers were starting to believe that this was a terrorist attack on the U.S. The question I wanted…

archival study for AVS 5204 Aviation Safety Analysis. The purpose it to use an online aviation database and extract data, analyze the data and then present the findings of the data. This study will analyze accidents and incidents that have occurred at Denver International Airport (DEN) since the airport opened in 1995. Several characteristics will be looked at, such as type of operation, severity of injuries, phase of flight, and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined cause. An…