Runway

discusses in great detail the December 29th, 2010, incident involving American Airlines flight 2253. This aircraft is a Boeing 757-200 with the registered tail number of N668AA. Upon landing, this large commercial airliner ran off the departure end of runway 19 and came to a gentle stop in deep snow at Jackson Hole Airport, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The occupants were not injured, and the airplane sustained minor damage (NTSB, 2010). The subsequent accident investigation revealed some areas of…

Imagine a plane thirty-six thousand feet in the air about to land in the city of Denver, Colorado. The plane circles the Denver International Airport and the passengers look down at the interestingly shaped runways as the plane is cleared to land. After the smooth landing, the passengers exit the plane to gather their luggage and go about their business in the city. Taking note of the artistic murals on the walls as they walk, passengers move along in a hurry to get where they are going, as they…

Alice Munro demonstrates throughout, Runway and Something I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You the constant theme of Protection. It is revealed by using characterization, plot and setting. Et find the poison in the cupboard and start to wonder if Char is poisoning Arthur. She constantly checks the Poisson to make sure it hasn’t gone down. “The question often crossed Et’s mind in later years – what did she mean to do about this story when Blakie got back” (p87). Et feel the need to protect Arthur from…

competing to become the major national airport of Holland as well. The Hague being the political capital decided it would need to have an airport to further its city status and economic interests. But the mayor felt it would take at least twenty years to develop a new airport, something the Chamber of Commerce would not wait for. Rotterdam did actively initiate the building of an airport in their city, and set up shop near the docks as they strongly believed that seaplanes would become the…

Because of risky flight conditions, a plane heading from Atlanta, Georgia to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in July, 2008 almost crashed during its landing. For many passengers, including seven year old Blake Hoffmaster and his family, the experience was traumatizing. Hoffmaster, now a freshman in high school, recalls the event, remembering that the plane was flying through a thunderstorm, and the first signs of a problem was turbulence, then the plane dropped 400 feet in two seconds when…

Search and Rescue in the Florida Everglades Search and Rescue (SAR) in the Florida Everglades provides a unique challenge due to the remote location and operations can often only be attempted by boat or aircraft. A suitable replacement for manned aircraft in these search and rescue operations could be a quad rotor unmanned aerial system (UAS). Manned aircraft, whether fixed wing or helicopters, are expensive to fly and maintain. A fleet of small quad rotor UAS equipped with a SAR specific…

The Strange Case of Mole Airlines At 6:02 am, our team was called on-site to the crash of Mole Airlines, Flight 1023, in a remote location. The plane was showing evidence of a pre-crash explosion, determined to be caused by trinitrotoluene explosive, also known as TNT dynamite. We were able to conclude the cause due to an elemental analysis of the residue found: 37.01% carbon, 2.22% hydrogen, 18.5% nitrogen, and 42.27% oxygen. Eight victims were found at the scene, and one was determined to be…

An Aerospatiale AS 355 Helicopter went down Oct 17 in Erwinna, PA killing pilot. The helicopter went down after the Doug Brigham, the pilot, lost control of the flight. According to a final accident report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Brigham intended to depart on a scheduled repositioning flight from a Helipad behind Brigham’s home to an airport located 25 nautical miles southwest. A handheld GPS device recovered from inside the helicopter shows that Brigham flew only…

Cheryl Tiegs has really upset a lot of people with her comments about Ashley Graham getting to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated. There has been a lot of talk about if Cheryl issued an apology or not and now Cheryl has officially apologized to Ashley for her comments, but it could just be a little too late. E! Online shared the details of what happened and Cheryl Tiegs apology. Just last week Cheryl revealed that she wasn't happy that the new Sports Illustrated had a "full-figured" woman on…

necessarily want to dress professionally. A negative characteristic about Miranda is that she did not act very nicely toward her assistants and just threw her stuff at them and said not so nice things about them. I think that Andrea choosing to work for Runway with Miranda was time well worth. She may not have enjoyed it very much, but the…