Whats+The+Plan+Stan?



= This term for topic we are focusing on disasters. = = We have to pick a disaster and do an activity on it. My first activity I have picked is to write a diary entry if we were in the situation adding personal voice and how we would feel. I have chosen the Tangiwai train crash. = = Here is a paragraph about the crash. = = = = = = It was Christmas eve 1953. It was a fine night after a day with no rain. There was nothing to show that the Whangaehu river would be flooded. At 10:21 pm the train was heading at 60 km an hour, to the bridge. As the exspress came closer the driver saw flashing lights and figures moving he slowed but unfortunately it wasn't enough. The five first carriages went tumbling off the track. The remaining four unhooked from the others and stayed on the track. Here are some photos of the accident. = ==

= Here is the dairy entry. =

= Dear Diary = = = = OMG I am so excited. I'm sitting in the express on my way to Wellington, only 7 hours till I get to see my family!!! We are coming closer to a bridge now, and I think I see some moving lights I try waking mum but she just tells me to go to sleep. Then I hear the deafening sound of the brakes. Mum is suddenly alert. We are all awake now and very curious. Then we hear a bolting sound, like something has come undone. I hear screaming all around me, not just from children. Then I realize that the first 5 carriages weren't connected to = = us anymore. That's when I start to scream. Our carriage is starting to tilt and I think were going to go down. The door crashes open and everybody including me evacuates. I am so scared. I can't find mum, I don't know what to do. Found mum but the fear is still curled around my heart. = ___ = = = = = The next disaster I have chosen is the Mt Erebus air crash. =

= On the morning of 28 November 1979 flight 901 left the Auckland airport. On board were 237 passengers and 20 crew feeling excited about the 11-hour site seeing return trip to Antarctica. These trips had been going on since 1977 and took the passengers on a low flying sweep over McMurdo Sound, returning to New Zealand on that same day. Both captains had not flown to Antarctica before, but were told that it was a easy fight. They both were experienced pilots. At 12:30 pm the flight was 70 km away from McMurdo and were given permission to proceed. At 12.45 pm Collins advised McMurdo Centre he was dropping further to 610 metres. At this point he locked onto the system, but Flight 901 was not where either McMurdo Centre or the crew thought it was. The change of the two co-ordinates had put the plane on a path not across the flat ground of McMurdo Sound, but across Lewis Sound and towards the 3794 metre-high active volcano, Mount Erebus. At 12:49 pm the an altitude device began to blurt a waring but collins had no time to save it from disaster. Six seconds later 901 crashed into the side of Erebus and it disintegrated. All people died and was a terrible disaster. =

= I have decided to do a Interview and then make it into a movie. Enjoy! =

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