Aviation Accidents
Thousands of workers have died or become ill since the 9/11 cleanup.
In 2012, the federal government agreed to add 50 types of cancer to the Zadroga Act, the 9/11 compensation fund covering first responders and others working near Ground Zero who contracted illnesses or cancer following months of search, rescue and clean up efforts. The Zadroga Act (approved by Congress, 2010) was intended to provide much needed health evaluations, health care and medical monitoring to responders and clean-up workers. Unfortunately, some of the medical science is having a hard timekeeping up with the reality of the devastation that the unprecedented clean-up effort has caused. According to the most recent data from the World Trade Center Health Program, there are nearly 3,000 cases of cancer among firefighters, police officers, contractors and civilians who worked or lived near the site of the attacks.
Air Algerie Flight AH5017 may have disappeared over a Mali area that has seen military fighting since at least January 2013. Planes, helicopters, tanks and ground forces have been employed in battles between French supported Malian troops and Islamist insurgent groups. BBC is reporting that weather was also “very bad” in the area of the country that the plane is believed to have gone down.
Honeywell ELT Fire on Ethiopian Airlines, July 2013 (SkyNews)
Perhaps one reason an emergency locator transmitter might not have worked as designed upon impact of an aircraft on sea or land is if it had been the cause of the emergency in the first place. Albeit a remote possibility, this adds one more possible explanation for the disappearance of Malaysian Airline MH370 on March 8, 2014 and the absence of any transmission from the Honeywell designed ELTs. Last year, on July 12, 2013 an unoccupied Ethiopan Airlines 787 Dreamliner caught fire in what investigators would later trace back to either a set of lithium-manganese dioxide-based chemical batteries that powered the Honeywell RESCU 406® AFN Emergency Locator Transmitter or “wiring installation discrepancies.”
Honeywell Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) RESCU 406®
We are baffled that we received no signal from the Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT) or the emergency beacons. ~ Tan Sri Rozali Daud, Royal Malaysian Air Force
The emergency locator transmitter has been discussed very little during the thousands of hours of media coverage for Malaysia Airline flight MH370. The transmitter’s sole purpose is to radiate a signal upon impact on land or sea. Though many “expert” scenarios suggest flight MH370 may have crashed, the question of why wouldn’t the ELT have radiated a locating signal is rarely mentioned.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Stop, stop, stop! There’s a body … there’s a body right there. Right in front of you.
Those are the words a San Francisco firefighter hollered as he ran up to an oncoming firetruck as it approached the wrecked and burning Boeing 777 that was Asiana Flight 214. Inexplicably and tragically though, neither he nor the driver, nor any other firefighter on the scene took any more steps to prevent the ensuing horrific and “completely avoidable” death of the injured teenager. A recently released video shows multiple firefighters working the plane near and around 16 year old Chinese student Ye Meng Yuan’s injured body as she lay helpless on the ground near the wing. Only minutes later, while concentrating on the burning plane, two firetrucks would run over the girl’s head, killing her.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malyasia and lost contact with air traffic controllers 2 hours later en route to Beijing, China. The Boeing 777-200 is currently missing and it is feared that it may be down in the South China Sea.
The US Navy destroyer USS Pickney w/ 2 MH-60R helicopters joined search units from China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines in searching the South China Sea for the missing aircraft which is carrying 239 people.
Crash of Cessna 340 on site at Gunsite Academy (Dwight D'Evelyn, Yavapai County Sheriff's Department)
Retired Denver Police Lieutenant Mike Hughes was killed in a Cessna 340 plane crash on Friday along with his wife, Joy. The owner and presumably the pilot of the plane, James Parrish, and his wife Lisa, also died in the crash. The plane departed from Bullhead City, Arizona for the 160 mile trip to the Prescott Airport in Prescott, AZ. Witnesses saw the plane clip some trees and then appear to explode on impact at the Gunsite Academy firearms training site in Prescott. Hughes has been an instructor at the renowned firearms training center since 1991.
