Oscar Nolan

Detecting Killers      While we justifiably spend a lot of recourses at airports trying to stop an invisible threat, a more observable killer continues to thrive. The killer we can normally observe and terrified to smell or touch, drugs. If we've learned anything about terrorism, it's the unfortunate truth that terrorists come in all shapes and sizes making them extremely difficult to stop. Likewise, as we've learned lately so can the drugs. As we continue trying to detect all killers at airports, a major observable societal problem continues to reveal itself and increasingly spread around the country.       We're asking a lot from TSA considering an airport is filled with so many people from all over the world. Given the nature of what an airport is and the state of the world, I'm honestly surprised to see airports operating at all. After visiting many of our streets in America, I can't find the words to express my disgust of this seemingly ignored tr...

  For this assignment I'd like to discuss the recent event where a Boeing 737 Max 9 lost a "plug" during flight from Oregon to California. The "plug" or "dummy door" if you will, is installed in unused door locations during manufacturing. The door completely separated from the plane at 16,000ft and of course this initiated an in flight emergency. The plane landed without any serious injuries. “The trees broke the fall like an airbag would,” said Bob Sauer, a science teacher at Catlin Gabel School. “So, it didn’t hit the ground very hard.” Yea that's right, if the event itself isn't embarrassing enough, Bob found the door in his yard.  Given my Airforce and civilian experience in aviation maintenance, my first impression of this event is purely second hand embarrassment. It's hard to imagine how terrified the passengers must have been on this flight.   For the purpose of this assignment and as far as ethics goes, I thought I'd use my ima...