Check out Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon by Thomas M. Myers. Myers, a prolific journalist and author, has painstakingly documented every death in the Grand Canyon up until 2012. This includes airplane and helicopter crashes, which were historically the park’s largest cause of death...
Like the Federal EOC, the Lagos State government has dealt with its fair share of medical emergencies. In the past 15 years, it has responded to two different airplane crashes in densely populated neighborhoods, a massive weapons explosion at the Ikeja military cantonment near the airport, oil p...
women who are fearful flyers generally tend to be afraid of crashing andlosing controlof their emotions while men are afraid because they cannot control the airplane and fear heights. The trick lay in understanding these triggers and dealing with them. ...
Many nervous flyers turn to alcohol to calm their nerves. While this may be fine in moderation, keep in mind that alcohol should not be combined with anti-anxiety medications. Also, alcohol can contribute to dehydration, particularly in the arid environment of an airplane. If you treat yourself...
make 2016 the warmest year on H I S record. However, global temperatures Part of it is down to proportionality bias. It is a tendency of the T are just one of many figures used to human brain to convince us that big events must have a big cause. Rather than accept the simple ...
It was an important year in the development of NASA’s space shuttle program. Throughout the year, tests were done on the Enterprise - named after the famous Star Trek ship - which included a run with the shuttle fixed to the top of a Boeing 747 airplane. On Aug. 12, 1977, the spac...
If you have ever seen a World War II bomber like the B-25 or the B-17, or if you have ever seen or been on an old commercial airplane like a DC-3, then you are familiar with something called a radial engine. Many planes of the WWII era used very large, very powerful radial...
I plan to be based in Seattle so that I can be close to the commercial airplane programs. In fact, I’ll be on the factory floor in Renton today, talking with employees and learning about challenges we need to overcome, while also reviewing our safety and quality plans.” It was only ...
The Air France pilots’ union said the incidents occurred on the airplane’s first commercial flight after heavy-maintenance work in China. The company that performed the work also does maintenance for American. (Air France has denied that the problems were associated with maintenance done in ...
“Careful analysis of the trends that are emerging even at these very high levels of safety is what will make flying even safer. This year’s report, for example, tells us that we need to make some special efforts on turboprop operations in Africa and Latin America.” IATA says that in ...