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Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:35:02 -0500

The National Transportation Safety Board has not yet determined why the Golf clubs plane crashed Oct. 25. Some aviation analysts, however, have speculated that Stewart's plane suffered from depressurisation that incapacitated those on board after the plane took off from Orlando on its way to Dallas, Texas.

As time wore on, American Airlines TaylorMade R9 MAX driver and TaylorMade R9 Driver Delta Air Lines planes were asked to try and contact the plane when it was near them. Neither they nor military pilots (who also tried) could get an answer. Some reported seeing the plane. The controller thanked the other pilots for their help in looking for "this guy that's unresponsive, climbing and ... probably going to die."

The tape was studied by the NTSB in its analysis of the disaster and then returned to the FAA. Its release is a routine post-crash step. The tape does not include any sounds inside the cabin of the plane. However, the safety board previously reported that alarms were heard on the cockpit voice recorder tape, TaylorMade R9 TP Driver And TaylorMade R9 460 Driver which also was reviewed. One that signals cabin pressure problems was sounding when the plane crashed in South Dakota. No one was heard talking on the 30-minute cockpit tape from the Learjet 35.

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Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:18:58 -0500

Officials from the crash investigation team of the doomed Learjet that Golf clubs killed US Open Champion Payne Stewart along with five others released their transcript of findings of what happened on the plane minutes before it crashed.

It appeared that TaylorMade R9 Fairway Wood Air traffic controllers grew increasingly worried as they tried repeatedly to contact Stewart's plane as Honma Beres MG813 Fairway Wood flew over the heartland of the United States on auto-pilot before crashing in a South Dakota field last October.

Their vain attempts to contact the plane failed along with efforts to get other pilots to Honma Beres MG813 Driver help and were heard on three hours of audio tape made public today by the US Federal Aviation Administration.

Both civilian and Honma Beres MG702 Irons military pilots were able to see the Learjet as it flew steadily on, but none could get an answer from the pilot. All of the windows of the Learjet were iced over suggesting that a sudden loss in cabin pressure was to blame and it would be unlikely that anyone would have survived.

sarah on Happy Birthday 9-1-1!

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:24:03 -0500

On this day, Feb. 16, in 1968, the first 911 emergency communications telephone system in the United States went into service in Haleyville, Ala.

In the earliest days of the telephone, calls had to go through an operator. The caller might say, "I'd like to report a fire." Operators knew the location of the caller and sometimes activated the town's alarms.

That changed with the introduction of the dial phone. Often callers didn't know what numbers to call for the police or fire.

In 1968, the federal government and AT&T agreed to designate 911 for emergency calls. It was originally advertised as "nine-eleven," but was changed to "nine-one-one" because some callers, especially children, might waste time looking for an "eleven" button.

More than 240 million 911 calls are dialed in the U.S. each year, making public safety communications a way of life for all Americans.

Click here for more information on 911 training.

Courtesy of the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer......06792.html

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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:01:49 -0500

Basic information about the Law Enforcement field. Good read!

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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:46:46 -0500

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Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:21:38 -0500

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