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Aircraft Accidents, 2006.
A review of a 2001 study regarding the factors that contribute to aircraft accidents.
2,600 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper explores a 2001 study of aircraft accident indicators, including pilot age, gender, education, flying experience, previous accident involvement and attitudes toward flying. The paper examines the study's methodology and findings in each of these areas before focusing on the role of the pilot's personality on airplane crashes. The paper shows how research indicates that personality is involved in decisions to stick to a flight plan regardless of weather, or abandon it in. The paper also examines whether gain (personal safety) or loss (money, time) is instrumental in those situations and concludes that these decisions do not disprove the function of personality, but rather reinforce it -- especially in light of the equivocal results of simulation experiments designed to test the hypothesis that it is the gain/loss continuum alone that determines whether a pilot will continue or abandon a flight plan in the presence of adverse weather information.
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"Hunter used data obtained in a national survey of pilots c completed in 1994 with the purpose of examining the validity of measure for predicting accidents and those that occurred after. Hunter used those finding to address two issues: "the relationships among the various measures and accident involvement" (Hunger, 2001, p. 509+). The population Hunter had at his disposal was significant; 561,485 active pilots (those who had been issued a valid airman medical certificate in the preceding 25 months) were used to draw 19,657 participants representing a cross-section of private, commercial and airline transport certificate holders. Those participants then filled out an extensive questionnaire, and, while it was not a personality inventory per se, it did contain 27 questions concerning attitudes about flying."
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Aircraft Accidents, 2006.
An analysis of the causes of aircraft failure due to component failure.
2,094 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper firstly discusses the most important component that fails in a reciprocating engine, the human component. It investigates an accident of a big aircraft, Lockheed Super Constellation, in order to qualify this opinion. The paper then examines the Cessna as an example of engine problems as a cause of aircraft accidents. The author stresses that it is the pilot error that causes 95 percent of the accidents for reciprocating engine aircraft.
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Abstract
Introduction
Analysis
Conclusion
References
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"Now let us look at the causes of accidents from an engine point of view. Both turbine engines and reciprocating engines process air in the same manner and that means that they both have intake, compression, combustion and exhaust. In the reciprocating engine one step has to follow the other and in the turbine engine all the processes proceed all at the same time and without any interruption. The other difference is that in the turbine engine there are separate components decided for the particular operation of the cycle, while in the reciprocating engine, all the functions take place in the same combustion chamber. The design of each engine gives certain benefits and advantages, and when the issue is considered from thermal efficiency, reciprocating engines are easily more efficient. They have a complex design, but the engine has had a longer period to be developed and perfected. The general view is that turbine engines have simplicity of motion and this has given a reputation for being more reliable, though it burns more fuel than a reciprocating engine."
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Aircraft Accidents, 2005.
This paper examines how weather conditions can cause fatal aircraft crashes.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses how weather conditions have often been a contributing factor in fatal aircraft crashes, especially in private and civil transport aviation. The paper explains that this is because some of these pilots have not acquired sufficient practical or IFR experience to overcome the challenges imposed by overcast weather conditions in elevated terrain, or by intense fog on a landing approach. The paper stresses that this is especially when flying at night, when darkness can exacerbate these challenges. The paper illustrates how tragically, some pilots tend to underestimate the difficulties low ceilings or adverse weather systems can impose, or they overestimate their piloting skills.
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Aircraft Accident Investigation Tools and Techniques, 2004.
This paper consists of specific areas of aircraft accident investigation technologies and their uses by investigators.
3,587 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 100.95
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This paper explains the various techniques used by aircraft accident investigating teams today. The writer explains the technical terms for the layman, which include accident scene photography, metallurgy, fluid analysis of fuels and oils, fire investigation in flight or on the ground occurrence, human factors, flight deck design, appropriate degree of automation, automatic overwing exit, human forensics and pathology, and flight data recorders.
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"Aviation accident and incidents are extremely painful and expensive for the aviation industry. This is why the aviation industry has investigative engineers who hold the responsibility of investigating accidents by reviewing and identifying the primary cause of the accident, whether it was related to aircraft performance such as, aerodynamics, engines, electrics, hydraulics, or if it was environmental or simply human error.
Investigating aircraft accidents can be extremely complex, sometimes taking many months to figure out the cause of the whole accident. So for the purpose of this task, there are engineers who often collaborate to work in teams in conducting the investigations. Primarily they are solely responsible licensed Professional Engineers, hired by the FAA Air Transport."
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Air Crash Investigation, 2008.
An analysis of the statistics of commercial jet aircraft accidents and steps that have been taken to improve the safety of flying.
2,536 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 76.95
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This paper examines aircraft accidents and the way that they have always been scrutinized very carefully. It provides a statistical summary of commercial jet aircraft accidents and discusses improvements in technology that is designed to minimize aircraft accidents. The paper also looks at other steps that have been taken to improve the safety of flying in aircrafts.
Table of Contents:
Statistical Summary of Commercial Jet Aircraft Accidents
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"Understanding the mean time between failure (MTBF) and the rate of failure of equipment in aircrafts in-depth can also be better modeled if history of the aircraft is known. Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) places great emphasis on analysis of historical data for identifying the schedule and planning the maintenance programs for any industry. As any computerized system offers the quickest and the most efficient manner of analyzing large quantities of data in the shortest possible time, any investment in the setting up of an on-line maintenance program monitoring system would prove to be beneficial for an aircraft operator. In addition, the connectivity that it provides would also help all other relevant interested parties in the process also monitor the aircraft as needed by law. The ability to replicate the functionality and simulate the actual operations and the subsequent maintenance requirements can also help decision makers identify problems and errors in the planning process."
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Airplane Accidents in the Media, 2002.
This paper examines the amount of airplane accidents that get covered in the media versus the number of the airplane accidents that actually happen.
1,021 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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The following paper examines how the news media has been changed from a brave, controversy-seeking faction to a community of self-censoring, congress-fearing puppets of whom the politically powerful are the puppeteers. The writer argues that the media is not the same establishment that once looked for the extra, but it is merely a reserved, timid society, a society that has ignored its once unquenchable thirst for the truth in order to satisfy its hunger for the more material things, money and power.
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"It is a calm, cold morning in Maine and the news is blaring in one household. The family hears that there has been another violent plane crash. Little Jimmy is quaking in his shoes, because he knows that the story will be covered constantly for most of the week, if not longer. Violent images will be shown on the television that his parents bought for Jimmy's favorite educational television shows. Jimmy decides to change the channel, but almost all of the channels are covering the same information about the plane crash. Then, an image of a man who died in the crash appears on television. Little Jimmy bursts into tears. Jimmy grows up to detest the news, and to hate plane crashes. Why must the news cover tragedies so extensively?"
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Home-Related Accidents, 2004.
A brief discussion of home-related accidents and how to prevent them.
863 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper discusses the unfortunately common occurrence of children being severely injured in home-related accidents. The paper contends that the majority of these accidents could have been prevented by implementing minimal safety measures. Statistics are provided regarding the number of children injured in accidents within the home in the United Kingdom. The paper outlines basic safety measures that should be taken to prevent these accidents.
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"It is an unfortunate fact that accidents affect young children within their own homes everywhere in the world, and if the adults had taken a mite more care and acted more responsibly, countless number of lives would have been saved, and quite a few instances of injury involving small children could have been prevented. In the United Kingdom alone, it is reported that about 320 children under the age of fourteen died of home-related accidents, mainly by poisoning and injuries due to various other reasons, in the year 2002. This is a figure that shows that more children die due to home-related accidents than of fatal diseases like leukemia and meningitis. These are the types of accidents that may occur to a child within the home: a fall or a trip, either at the same level, or from one level to another. Burns and scalds was another major risk within the home, and either hot drinks or fires caused most of these accidents. Poisoning was another important cause for the death of small children, and this is something that can be easily prevented with the minimum amount of safety measures. (How Many Children are injured in Accidents?) "
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Death by Electrical Accidents and the Law, 2004.
A focus on the California laws regarding wrongful death and in particular, death resulting from electrical accidents.
1,131 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper examines how there are special laws protecting both the consumer and the worker who have to deal with electricity, particularly California Public Utilities section 8031 and 8033. It looks at how any person who is injured by an electrical accident can sue if the accident was caused by the negligence or wrongdoing of another. It also discusses how, in the case of the electric companies, they must make frequent inspections to insure that the lines are not defective or pose a threat to the safety of the consume ; they are responsible for protecting against any forces of nature or foreseeable threats that could result in injury or death. It also shows how, according to the law, the power company has a ?non-delegable? duty to construct and maintain its facilities in a safe condition.
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"In the case of Pappert v. San Diego Gas & Electric (186 cal. Rptr 847), the plaintiff. Susan A. Pappert and her children, appealed the wrongful death of her husband, Charles, arising from his electrocution while trying to cut a tree close to the uninsulated 12,000-volt power line. Were the findings correct in stating that SDG&E could not have reasonably foreseen that the defendant?s own acts would cause him harm? It cannot be proved that the tree pruner ever came in contact with the power line because no one witnessed it. So therefore, who can say what truly happened? There are some that say the tree itself may have been energized by the wire."
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Fatal Traffic Accidents, 1991.
This paper discusses fatal traffic accidents: Causes, contribiting factors (age, sex, speed, seat belts, type of car). Table.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 7 sources, $ 63.95
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"Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of accidental death in the United States ("Statistical Abstracts" and "International"). In 1988, 62,237 licensed drivers were involved in fatal motor-vehicle accidents. Statistics show that alcohol is a major contributing factor in accidents but what about other elements such as geographic region, income and driver's age? Do these things contribute to the possibility of a fatal car crash, and if so, how? In this paper these questions are examined.
ACCIDENT FACTORS
Accident factors have been divided into three groups: epidemiologic Factors or factors which do not cause accidents or deaths but are related to the national distribution of traffic fatalities in the United States; causes of accidents, actual ... "
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The Cause of Car Accidents, 2002.
This paper discusses and analyzes the major causes of car accidents: Road rage, talking on a cell phone and eating or drinking in the car.
550 words (approx. 2.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 19.95
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This paper discusses many forms of driver inattention on the road today. The paper states that Americans, and other drivers around the world, treat their cars like an extension of their homes: Eating, drinking, watching movies, talking on the phone, putting on make-up and even brushing their teeth in their cars, while driving. The author feels that the causes of these behaviors are our busy lifestyle, where we try to cram too much into each day.
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"Road rage is a relatively new problem to the country's drivers, and it has affected everyone who ever sits down behind the wheel. A study by the American Automobile Association's Foundation for Traffic Safety found a 51 percent increase between 1990 and 1996 in incidents of motorists behaving in an overtly hostile manner. They found that road rage has grown over 7 percent in the 90s'. "At least 1,500 men, women, and children are seriously injured or killed each year in the United States as a result of senseless traffic disputes and altercations."
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Turbine Engine Accidents Caused by Foreign Objects, 2006.
This essay details the damage that can result from foreign objects coming into contact with turbine engines.
1,764 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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The author concentrates on a number of incidents where accidents occurred when a foreign body collided with a turbine engine. These incidents are studied in detail to determine the precise cause of them, with the author concluding that even with investigation the causes can still remain unclear. Rules have been instituted to prevent such accidents, but there is a way to go in determining the problems accurately.
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"The failure of the number 2 engine was due to the slow release of one blade from within its setting in the first stage high pressure compressor disk. This is what led to the fire in the titanium metal within the compressor assembly. For the final break up of the blade from the compressor disc was a result of the cracking and consequent failure of the root corners of the blade. There was a large extent of damage to the dovetail root surfaces of even the blades which were retained. This suggests that fatigue cracking mechanism was initiated due to the stresses that came from uneven dovetail root bedding. Further evidence is established from the engine manufacturer through the initiation of blade dovetail root cracking. (Accident and Incident Reports- Detail: Occurrence Brief) Here again study showed that turbine engine failure was not due to the impact of foreign objects."
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Roller Skating Accidents, 2005.
Explains why it is important to don protective gear when roller skating.
1,255 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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Since its booming popularity in the 1950s, until today's inline varieties, roller skating has been one of the most popular recreational activities in the United States and perhaps around the world. This paper explains the importance of protective equipment to prevent accidents from happening when roller skating. It describes the types of injuries that might occur when protection is not used.
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"In the same way that safety belts reduce the chances of being severely injured in a car crash, protective gear such as elbow and knee pads reduce the chance of severe injury in a skating accident. Especially when skaters fall on asphalt or concrete, the elbows, knees, and hands are the first to be roughed up by the harsh pavement material. Based on hospital statistics, three-quarters of skaters who enter emergency rooms following an accident had not been wearing protective gear. These statistics show that while the gear does not in itself prevent accidents, it can and does reduce the severity of skating-related accidents."
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Pilot Error In Airplane Accidents, 1989.
Discusses such factors as insufficient sleep, heavy air traffic, misjudgment, bad weather and misreading of instruments.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, $ 55.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the human factor in aviation and the degree to which pilot error is the cause of airplane accidents. This will require a brief discussion of the available facts and statistics on air travel as well as a review of the reasons why this happens, even among seasoned pilots, and why the numbers are growing.
The modern airliner is a marvel of technology, as safe as man can make it. The statistics convincingly point to the safety of flying over other means of transportation. "In 1978, U.S. airlines completed 99.99991 percent of their flights without a fatality (Norris 11). In 1979 around 800 million passengers travelled by air around the world, and only 1,267 of them (plus 149 crew members) were killed, making the odds about 565.000 to 1 (Norris 11). These figures have remained relatively constant, (...)"
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Transportation, Safety and Accidents, 2002.
This paper discusses the technological advances and newly developed safety systems for all methods of transportation.
3,290 words (approx. 13.2 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 94.95
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This paper provides an extensive background and analysis of transportation methods and their supporting systems and services on a national, regional and local basis. The author stresses the importance of safety and that as technology continues to advance, new safety systems and standards will continue to develop.
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Introduction
History of Transportation
Transportation Today
Safety Devices
Department of Transportation
Travel on Land
Travel by Ship
Air Travel
Railroad Travel
Keeping Transportation Safe
Bibliography and Endnotes
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"Today, there is a vast array of transportation choices, commercial airliners, trains, automobiles, subways, buses, motorcycles, motor homes, ships, boats, or bicycles. Depending on the amount of time and money we want to spend, there are many choices involved in travel.
But with these increased means of travel come change in global markets, environmental challenges, transnational security threats and a communication and information revolution. Every mode of transportation has individual risks, safety issues, laws, and problems. And each mode of transportation has agencies that deal with them."
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Pilot Error, 1989.
Analyses the role of human mistakes in aircraft accidents. Examines types, causes and examples.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 39.95
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""Pilot Error" is the identified cause of a large fraction of aircraft accidents, and the role of pilot error (and other human errors, e.g. by ground controllers) is tending to increase as improvements in aircraft design, weather forecasting, and other technical areas of aviation reduce the role of structure failures and other "unavoidable" causes of aviation mishaps. By the 1970s, fifty-five percent of accidents were attributed to pilot error (Hurst 13). Clearly, the human factor, in various forms, plays an ever increasing role in air accidents.
Human error may take many forms, from gross displays of bad airmanship to unconscious errors which can be attributed to fatigue or to unconscious perceptual errors. When human error is identified as the primary or contributory cause of an accident, our principal concern is not to fix blame, but to identify (...)"
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