Airframe Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hong Kong to Denver

Trans-Pacific 545, an N-22 fuse number 271, after having experienced severe in-flight turbulence, asked LAX airport control tower to have an emergency landing authorized.

Answer: Casey Singleton

Casey Singleton, thirty-six years old. Vice-president at Norton Aircraft in Burbank. Divorced. One child, Allison, seven years old.

Answer: Kay Liang, a flight attendant

Kay Liang, a flight attendant. She told Casey she was in the mid-cabin galley setting out drinks when the plane began to climb, and suddenly there was a very steep descent. She explained that the plane was a chaos and that the situation was very distressing.

Answer: Slats deployment.

After having interviewed a flight attendant and a passenger, actually two witnesses, Casey had no doubts about a slats deployment. First of all, the vibrating sound during twelve seconds, exactly the time it took the slats to extend. After that, a slight nose up, and then porpoising as the crew tried to stabilize the aircraft.

Answer: Building 64

Amos suggested Casey she had to look at the maintenance records and look hard at the paper for any part she could be suspicious of. And the ship's record were in Building 64. She knew it was dangerous, but she decided to go on investigating anyway.

Answer: Falls down when trying to escape from two men following her.

She was on the outside of the girders, hanging on, when she saw the two men looking at her, one of them climbing down after her. She looked back and saw a power cable, hanging from the ceiling. She thought she could hang and slide slowly down, but her arms were weak, and she couldn't control herself. She finally let go, and fell.

Answer: Newsline

Jennifer Malone, twenty-nine, the youngest segment producer in "Newsline". She is very good at her job. She liked working behind the scenes, keeping her name unknown.

Answer: Jennifer is in charge of an interview about the Trans-Pacific flight.

"Newsline" had organized an interview about the Trans-Pacific flight 545, with the crew, Casey, representing the manufacturer, and Marty Reardon.

Answer: Yuma, Arizona

At Norton Test Facility in Yuma, Arizona. Inside the aircraft it was full with video cameras to film the entire test flight. Jennifer manages to go on the flight, and so does Casey, in part to prove that the N-22 was safe.

Answer: The captain had let his son fly the plane.

John Chang, the pilot in charge of the TPA545 flight, had permitted a non N-22 certified pilot fly the aircraft. The investigators believe that the aircraft had been on autopilot and that the captain had let his own child momentarily in charge of the flight. In that very moment the disagree warning occurred, the boy had extended the slats but panicked, over corrected and porpoised.