United Airlines Flight 93

Helios Airways “Ghost” Flight 522 Abstract : Helios airways flight 522 carrying people to their holiday destination took a tragic dive into the mountains when the whole crew and passengers became unconscious. No one in air or on ground could determine in time what was happening. Investigation revealed that a pilot’s negligence on a routine check proved to be deadly for all 121 on board. Depressurization was the determined caused which happened when the pressurization was left on manual after a…

9/11 - Personal Perspective In 2001, I lived in Slovakia, my home country and did not even dream of living in the United States someday. I was slowly getting used to my new role of a wife and mother that year, quite happy living in a small country in the middle of Europe. I was visiting my parents on Sept. 11 for couple of days. My first child had just been born in August and it was her first visit in grandparents’ house. Our lives revolved around the baby. About 3 pm that day I was…

Pigeon Forge Fires One November day two young juveniles set the beautiful mountains of Pigeon Forge on fire. Burning thousand of acres, homes of animals and human. The fire put a lot of pollution into the air killing many animals and even some human. It was the largest fire they have had in the past one hundred years changed life all over the world. There was schools closing, places evacuated, and roads being closed off. Shelters was being opened for families that homes burned and have nowhere…

restroom and his legs feel like jello for how long he”d been sitting. Afterwards he sat on the couch and turn the TV on and slowly drift off to sleep. While Edward was sleep, terrible things started to occur in the U.S. 4 international airplanes took flight and was being controlled by terrorist. Two planes crashed in NYC, one in Washington D.C. and last one never reached its intended target. At the time all the planes…

T he Hindenburg Disaster occurred 79 years ago today. On May 6,1937 in Lakehurst, New Jersey the world’s largest aircraft ever built caught fire and burned to the ground in seconds. The Hindenburg was a zeppelin aircraft. Zeppelins were made of helium but for some odd reason the Hindenburg was made of hydrogen, a very flammable gas. The Hindenburg was over eight-hundred feet long and carried over 2656 people across the Atlantic between Germany and New York and Rio de Janerio before the…

Polynesian seafarers, who traveled thousands of miles in their canoes, guided by the stars, the rhythms of the ocean, the color of sky and the sun, the shapes of clouds, the direction from which the swells were coming, and the presence of birds making flights out to sea seeking food. The Polynesians first arrived on the island in 400 A.D. However, the ocean currents which carried them there would not take them back. They were trapped and, having arrived there, could not…

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…

Aaliyah was “The princess of R&B” an american singer, she also was a actress, dancer, and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York but she was raised in Detroit, Michigan. The daughter of Diane and Michael Haughton. Aaliyah was born on January 16,1979 and died on August 25,2001. She signed a contract with Jive Records at the age of 12 and was killed at the age of 22. On August 25, 2001 Aaliyah was in the Bahamas shooting a music video for Rock The Boat when a plane that Aaliyah and her…

It was late September when they heard the news. At eight-thirty in the morning PST, a combat ship belonging to the new republics crashed into the deserts of Coalry. No survivors have been found, yet. They read the news over and over again, looking for something that would give them hope, something that would calm the frenetic beating of their hearts. But the more they read, the more information corroborating the news surfaced. P-189 was flying enemy grounds when it was blasted from the air.…

This is my reflection on the 9-11 events. On September 11th, 2001 a plane crashed into the one of the two twin towers. Soon after another plane did the same to the other. The Pentagon was destroyed, a field in Philadelphia was pointlessly burned, and when they thought it couldn’t get any worse, the two buildings collapsed. Power was suddenly off in downtown Massachutes and the world trade center was destroyed. It was a sad and tragic event. It seemed to really have no really good reason to…