How to Implement the Recommendations from the Colgan Air Crash The most important part of any accident investigation is the list of recommendations that come from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). While these recommendations are suggestions, they are designed to prevent similar accidents from occurring in the future. The “lessons learned” are critical to the work of the NTSB. The Aviation Accident Report (AAR-10-01) issued twenty-five recommendations related to this flight.…
There are number of risk involved in the aviation especially in the terms of operation and safety as internal safety of the aircraft is an inherent function of management. Modifications and improvement in safety is a continual process however there are much safety kept in the form clothing, noise control, temperature and electrical control. For the aircraft there are fabrics for fire safety and precaution like Nomex, Kevlar and PBI. For fire safety and protection at high temperature PBI is the…
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…
This case is about what really happened in Air France 447 and what were causes of it. After analyzing the only data available, which were cryptic set of communications, experts found out that mostly the crash happened because of human factors. The weather conditions were bad and after AF447 passed into clouds associated with a large system of thunderstorms, its speed sensors became iced over, and the autopilot disengaged. In the ensuing confusion, the pilots lost control of the airplane because…
Thesis: Distracted driving is the leading cause of car accidents in teenagers. The solution to prohibiting the use of technology while driving by understanding a teenager’s behavior, enforcing laws that ban technology use while driving, other simple solutions, and learning about families that are affected by distracted driving. Source One Newspaper "Teens Say They Know Texting While Driving Is Dangerous, Yet Almost...." Norwalk Reflector. 20 Oct. 2015: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 21 Nov.…
of how mechanical errors and human errors cause aircraft accidents. It has been mentioned that human error has been implicated in 70 to 80% of all civil and military aviation accidents. Errors and violations are two main unsafe factors in air transportation. It contains three different errors: decision errors, skill-based errors, and perceptual errors. The systemic analysis about the human errors in aviation accident provides evidences that aircraft crashed can be avoided by correct decision and…
Los Angeles is a place where people of different social backgrounds lead increasingly separate, parallel lives. Individuals from all social backgrounds participate in routine activities in micro-spaces throughout the city such as purchasing a cup of coffee or riding the bus to work. These people can be a student going to school or a senior citizen out on a stroll. Even though they may cross paths and share certain spaces on a consistent basis, that does not mean that they live identical lives.…
I took the bus around the Los Angeles area on a Saturday. The bus I used was the 30/330 that goes from Sunset Boulevard into East Los Angeles. This was mostly what seemed to be residential areas and the main streets of Los Angeles. While riding the bus I saw the difference within the people through the surrounding buildings. The visible wealth disparity between the residents of Los Angeles is very stark and can be seen within neighborhoods. Starting at Sunset, near the Greystone Mansion, the…
There are many outlets in which officials can gain the ability to scrutinize, regulate, and influence every action and behavior one makes therefore allowing surveillance to greatly affect the use of public space by standardizing who, when and where protests, art and many other social activities can occur. Visiting Broadway and Whittier Blvd. in Los Angeles gave me a broader view of how this urban space has been used to illustrate important events of Chicano community members. On my commute to…
The first prisons were introduced in medieval times. These prisons were more for containment instead of punishment. This introduced the start to modern prisons (Sharpe, 1988). During this time the death penalty had a main focus in regard to the penal system. Bellamy (1973) stated that even though it appeared that capital punishment rates were alarmingly high, it was significantly lower than the previous two centuries. Towards the end of the seventeenth century, rates of imprisonment declined…