Hi, I’m Chang Yee Chun.
Briefly Description of Aviation Field History:
First of all, I would like to highlight the history of aviation. Drawn back to pre-historic era, the Aulus Gellius, Archytas, the Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and strategist ever made a bird-shaped model propelled by a jet of what was probably stem, said to have successful flown 200 meters. His invention product known as ‘the Pigeon’. Besides, the Lord Kelvin, William Thomson, Irish-born British mathematical physicist and engineer, ever stated that “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” However, after a long term of invention and discovery for the dream of flying in the skies, the Wright Brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, the pioneer of aviation field inventor invented the glider of which the manned airplane was successful introduced on 17 December 1903.
Air Crash Incidents:
An aviation accident had roughly defined in the Annex 13. The Annex 13 stated that occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, in which a person is fatally or seriously injured, the aircraft sustains damage or structural failure and/or the aircraft is missing or is completely inaccessible. Besides, an aviation incident can also defined that there as an occurrence other than an accident, associated with the operation of an aircraft, which affects or could affect the safety of operations.
In this modern era, the invention and introduction of modern airplane allowed convenient for people to travel around the world. Nevertheless, the incidents of air crashes and aircraft accidents are unavoidable. These all probably caused by human error and some weather conditions. A survey had been conducted by Boeing Company stated that 55% of aircraft accidents were due to flight crew error, 17% is because of airplane (mechanical error), 15% due to weather, 7% classified into miscellaneous and others reasons, 5% due to air traffic control erroneous and 3% maintenance mistakes. This survey was based on aircraft accidents happened on between 1996 through 2005. While Trantolo & Trantolo LLC concluded that some common causes of aircraft accidents include pilot error, inclement weather, engine failure, mid-air collision, negligent maintenance, instrument failure, icing, air traffic controller error, improper loading of cargo, defective onboard equipment and fuel tank explosions.
For instance, the notable aircraft accident happened in our country was Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 from Penang International Airport to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport and it changed it route to Singapore International Airport (Paya Lebar) and crashed at Tanjung Kubang, Johor. This tragedy was happened in Dec 4, 1977 due to hijacking. It was speculated that the Japanese Red Army was responsible for the hijacking and and subsequent murder of the pilots due to the hijackers were spoken in Japanese, according to the cockpit voice recorder found on the site of this aircraft accident. There were totally one hundred fatalities involved in this aircraft accident, included 93 passengers and 7 crewmembers and survivor. A novel written by Dzul Karnain Ithnin called Tregedi Empat Disember (The Tragedy of December Four) was obviously referred to the real disaster.
On the other hand, another notable aircraft accident happened due to in-flight structural failure result of metal fatigue and explosive decompression. It was China Airlines Flight 611 scheduled departed on Taipei Taoyuan International Airport headed to Hong Kong International Airport and crashed near Penghu Islands in the Taiwan Strait on May 25, 2002. This tragedy was the result of metal fatigue due to inadequate maintenance after a previous incident on February 7, 1980 in Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport. The aircraft was then ferried back to Taiwan on the same day de-pressurized, and a temporary repair done the day after. A team from Boeing conducted a permanent repair on 23 May until 26 May 1980 but the permanent repair of the tail strike not carried out in accordance with the Boeing SRM. Consequently, after repeated cycles of depressurization and pressurization during flight, the weakened hull gradually started to crack and finally broke open in mid-flight on 25 May 2002, exactly 22 years after the faulty repair was made upon the damaged tail. An explosive decompression of the aircraft occurred once the crack opened up, causing the complete disintegration of the aircraft in mid-air.
As a conclusion, the aircraft maintenance should be carrying out accordingly to the highlighted guideline. Such lots of air safety topics for instance, lighting, ice and snow, engine failure, metal fatigue, delamination, stalling, fire, bird strike, ground damage, volcanic ash, human factors, airport design, infection, emergency aircraft evacuations and runway safety.
Based on my own view, I felt sorry and condolence to those fatalities all involved in the aircraft accidents since the beginning of invention of aircraft. I do not felt that aircraft accidents were heart-broken, but it given me an impression of highly alert towards air safety must always putting in first priority and shouldn’t negligent.
My Determination on Piloting:
Firstly, I would like to tell me experience with first flight when I was only a few months infant with Malaysia Airlines at that time. That flight was flying from Sandakan to Alor Star, via Kota Kinabalu and Kuala Lumpur. Logically, I couldn’t remember my first flight experiences. =P However, I only discovered that flying with aircraft when I was only four years old, where the age for kiddies started to discover new stuff and learn. Then, I started to discover regarding airplane and friendly miss cabin crew. There was a sillier affair during my trip back to West Malaysia, and I was waiting at Subang Airport Terminal Three when I was about eight or nine years old, I greet a pilot at the time I waiting for the next flight to Alor Star. I rushed in front of him and asked, “How do u make the airplane fly?””How do you keep airplane fly in the sky without dropping on the ground or sea?” ”How do you control the flight? Is it a complicated job?” “How do you…”, he then looked at me and smiled brightly answered my question, “You will know that after you have steep into secondary school.”
As time pass by, after I step into form four and successfully enrolled into science stream. I could remember that there was a physics tutor at my school physics lab. My teacher taught us about Bernoulli’s Principle, it was the most wonderful tutoring at that time. She did taught and explained clearly regarding the principle and it’s application, inclusive whether how is an airplane could fly and control. It was my time to discovered that airplane flying was actually can clearly explain in the Bernoulli's Principle.
Yeap, I do wanna to be a pilot, as since I was in standard two or three. Hence, I tried my best to write a better post to grab a chance to be short-listed under this program. Why not? Just post and grab a chance to be participating in Air Asia’s cadet pilot this year. I'm a man of never give up, so I'll try my best all the time. If you do not short-listed my post, I'll to write a post as much as possible before the due date. Cheer!
Here is some of my personal particular:
Name: Chang Yee Chun (anyone could call me as Tony as well... =P )
Date of Birth: 22nd March, 1990
Nationality: Malaysian
Age: 19
Height: 1.71m
Weight: 73kg (as of Apr 21, '09)
BMI: 25.65 [(Weight) ÷ (Height × Height)]
My Personal Community Website: http://www.friendster.com/tonychang & http://tonychangchun.blogspot.com/
My Email: tchang@y7mail.com
Mailbox: W.D.T. 39, PPJU, 90309 Sandakan, Sabah.
Contact number: +6089219767
Place of Birth: Hospital Duchess of Kent, Sandakan, Sabah.
Hometown: Kaki Bukit, Perlis.
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Highest Qualification: SPM year 2008
My SPM Result: one A1 for Maths, two A2 for English and History, two B3 for Chemistry and EST (Eng for Sci & Tech), six B4 (Physics, Biology, Pendidikan Moral, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Cina(Chinese), Add Maths)
Co-curriculum Achievement: Member of Scout in school (2003-2008), Vice President of School Buddhism Society (2005-2008), Member of School Badminton Society (2008), School Perfect (2005-2008), Head of School Cleanliness Board (2008), Member of Ikatan Relawan Rakyat Malaysia (RELA) (since year 2007), Kursus Asas RELA Siri 2/2007 (November 2007)
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