Witness Statement And Critique A chartered Beechcraft †Free Samples

Question: Discuss about the Witness Statement And Critique. Answer: A chartered Beechcraft 200 Super King crashed on 28th July at around 10.00 am near Burketown, Queensland, which took flight from Perth. Investigators rushed to the scene to collect evidences that would help in the investigation process. Several witness reports were taken. One of such statements has been given below: Frank Miller states: On the morning of today, 28 July 2017, I was at my home, getting prepared to go to work. I am employed as the manager of a local hardware shop and today I was supposed to reach the store at 10:30 am, when the shop opens normally. It takes me around 15 minutes to reach the store from my home by car. I was taking the car out from the garage at about 10.00 am when I casually looked up at the sky, saw the chartered plane, and instantly struck me that something was not right. The plane seemed to be descending at an alarming speed and was nowhere near the height where it should have been. I was genuinely panic-stricken and was horrified at 6the thought of what was about to happen. My neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Kane had also noticed the plane, following my gaze and they were standing on their front porch. Some pedestrians and commuters on the road stopped and started following the flight. Everyone was screaming and gasping or expressing their concerns. The plane flew over my home and crash landed on the open fields some 2 kilometers from our backyard. The sound that emanated from the crash was thunderous and the explosion that followed temporarily blinded us all. Everyone around were so perplexed from witness the incident that they could not move at all. After half a minute or so, almost everybody started to run together towards the crash site. My car was already out of the garage, so I took my car and reached the site before everyone else. Upon reaching the site, I believe it was 10.07 am, I saw that the whole plane was reduced to rubbles and all of its parts were scattered across the open and the bulk of the body had caught fire. When the others caught up with me, we were not sure what to do. Some of the people called the local fire department and the police station, which were already on their way. We tried to get as close to the plane as we could, despite the fire, but it did not seem likely for anyone to be able to survive a crash like that. The fire department took around 5 more minutes to reach the place and at around 10.15 am they could start the process to get the fire under control. The locals have all stayed near the site and I have taken a day off myself to assist the officials with anything that they might require. The whole day it has been full of anxiety and the shock is not yet recovered from. However, we still hope that after the removal of the debris and the pilling rubble, at least one person would be found to be alive, which would be more than anyone could ever ask for right now. Critique of the statement made by Frank Miller: Evidences have been collected by the investigation teams at an earliest. The investigating officers took a number of interviews and the statements of the local witnesses to get an insight about the nature of the plane for last few minutes, to better understand any technical problems that might have occurred. (Sirsikar and Chandankhede 2014; Fraher 2014) However, the air control systems of Perth announced that, the pilot of the chartered flight was not responding well during the last 10 minutes of maintained communication and even his reactions had seemed to become sluggish. Mr. Millers statement seems to indicate that the flight was off-balance and maybe the pilot was trying to level out the two sides of the plane (Byard, and Payne-James 2015). It also seems that maybe the left engine was dying out, or already dead. Plane experts believe that it is immensely rare for a small chartered plane like this to not have balance: which leads to the assumption that it was a technical glitch that caused the accident (Strauch 2015; Strauch 2017). Moreover, Millers statements also indicate that the flight was airborne for quite some time before hitting the ground and he did not notice any leakages on the fuel tank of the plane. The forensics team has been tireless gathering evidences from the crash site which match this statement. Mr. Miller was the first at the crash site, that makes his statements the most important and he has been able to give a detailed description of the surrounding things which would be greatly helpful for the investigation (O'Neil and Kriz 2013). References Sirsikar, N.P. and Chandankhede, P.H., 2014. Design of ARM based enhanced event data recorder evidence collecting system.IOSR-JECE,9, pp.2278-2234. 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