Friday, 7 March 2014

Current event 5

The article is about a commercial plane full of passengers losing contact with the air control tower. Operator are trying to contact the loss plane, but so far have not had any luck. The plane was suppose to land at Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.

This article relates to class because I had to research technology and science. How is it possible that in the 21 century a plane can lose contact with the air control tower? You would think something like this would be a problem of the 20th century.

I believe that authorities need to do everything in their power to locate this plane. This is scary, reading this article will make me think twice before hoping in a plane. It is hard to believe and scary that something like this can happen to you.

What is the purpose for using [statistics/quotations/headings/bullets/personal experience] (choose one of the options and write only on it.) If you have another element that you would like to discuss on this question, get the okay from me before proceeding. Use evidence from the selection to support your answer.


The purpose of quotations in this article is to hear an opinion or point of view of someone with the experience on the subject. The article talks about a loss plane but a retired pilot, Capt. Jim Tilmon stresses the danger by saying, "It doesn't sound very good, that the route is mostly overland, which means that there would be plenty of antennae, radar and radios to contact the plane." Tilmon also stated "I've been trying to come up with every scenario that I could just to explain this away, but I haven't been very successful." The quotes of Tilmon gave the audience the realization of how serious this is.
Watkins,Tom."Malaysia Airlines loses contact with passenger jet"CNN.Mar,7 2014. web Mar, 7 2014<http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-missing/index.html?hpt=hp_t2>


JetPix,McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31, Airborne Express.Flickr,Yahoo.photograph,Jun, 22 1994.web. Mar, 7 2014<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McDonnell_Douglas_DC-9-31,_Airborne_Express_AN0215825.jpg>

1 comment:

  1. This was a great post. It does seem really scary to get on a plane now. There were some mistakes that I saw where you forgot a letter or put the wrong letter and made it a completely different word. There were also some places that could use a comma. If you just read it aloud then you will see that there should be a pause (comma) in some places that there are not. Other than that, Great post! Keep up the good writing!

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