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On August 17, 1970, Air France Flight 030 departed from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport at 1820 with a final destination of Orly Airport, Paris, France (Aircraft incident report, 1970). Flight 030 performed a scheduled stop in Montreal, P.Q., Canada. Upon departure of Montreal at 2226, flight 030 had no issues to report; however, at 2235 flight 030 experienced a number three engine malfunction, which had a fire warning associated with it, at 5,600 feet Mean Sea Level (MSL) (Aircraft…

On November 1971, a man who gave himself the name Dan Cooper hijacked a plane and took hostages. In exchange for them to take him to Mexico he would let the passengers live. But midway through he took the parachute and 200,000 dollars he stole and jumped off. Atlantis is is a legendary and advanced city. They say that Atlantis brings world peace. And it holds holy wisdom. It is still questionable to this day if Atlantis is real. It was a very high classed civilization, and it sank to to the…

many Americans for the rest of their lives. On the morning of September 11, 2001 at approximately 8:45 AM, four hijacked passenger planes were involved in a series of terror attacks. Two of the planes were crashed into both towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. The other two planes were crashed into the Pentagon building in Virginia and a field in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in these attacks. The terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 were revolutionary to the…

Amelia Earhart- Where Did She Go In this essay I will be talking about theories on where Amelia Earhart disappeared. Amelia Earhart is famous because she was the first lady to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. But the sad thing is she and her flying partner Noonan disappeared while flying her "Lockhead Model 10 Electra" on July 2, 1937. She was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas and disappeared near the Howland Island. They never found the plane or anyone's body. But if you see her look for…

During the early 20th century building airships became very popular, and Germany quickly became the most developed and impressive builders of this type of lighter-than-air innovation. A German businessman, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was one of the leading inventors who build many experimental dirigibles. The Hindenburg was one of Zeppelin and Ludwig Dürr’s most successful airship. By 1936, the Hindenburg had concluded ten very successful trips which made it very popular and well known.…

The November 2015 bombings in Paris changed the lives of many all around the world, and it sent flashbacks to many of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and eastern parts of the United States. After 9/11, many people began to live in fear and created a stereotype for what a terrorist truly looks like based upon skin color, accent, how he dresses and his name. In addition, the same stereotype was placed upon those who planned the bombings in Paris. Whether a person wears a…

Underground In the spring of 1995, Japan faced a catastrophe that would forever embed itself in the history of the nation. This event was the 1995 Tokyo Sarin gas attack. During this event Sarin gas was released in the Tokyo subway system resulting in twelve dead and thousands injured. This attack was conducted by five members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult (Aum). In his book Underground, Haruki Murakami interviewed the victims and ex-members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult in order to discover what…

The Frankford Avenue Commercial Corridor runs along Frankford Avenue, a major north-south corridor and the site of the Market-Frankford Line Elevated Structure, from Orthodox Street in the south to Bridge Street in the North. The corridor features two traffic lanes – one northbound and one southbound – as well as two parking lanes. The traffic lanes feature Bicycle sharrow icons to facilitate road sharing across modes. Frankford is a working-class neighborhood that depends on a few key…

On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded over Texas and Louisiana upon re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. The loss of the shuttle and its crew was from a piece of insulation foam that detached from the shuttle’s external tank. Fuel had nothing to do with the explosion, they burned the remaining fuel before re-entry. Space exploration takes a lot of money, the budget increased 3.1 percent from 2003 to 2004. The Columbia incident was the second of two tragedies of space shuttle…

STS Mission staff went over the checklist before the launch and made sure that everything was ready in order for the Columbia Shuttle to launch. Their checklists were were clear and the shuttle was ready for its launch. But unfortunately the two centers that were in charge for this launch were busy because as soon as the space shuttle lifts off the launchpad in Florida, Mission Control in Houston takes control of the mission. The staff in Florida had no control of what went on in Houston, which…