Assignment for 2014-02-Week 4

Topics for 2014-02-Week 4

1.復航空難-Tran Asia, crash, Taipei

2.美狙擊手-American Sniper, Chris Kyle

3.我想念我自己-Still Alice, Alzheimer’s disease, Julianne Moore

4.模仿遊戲-The Imitation Game, Alan Turing

Assignment for 2014-02-Week 3

Topics for 2014-02-Week 3

1.上海跨年踩踏致死-Shanghai, new year, stampede

2.Uber優步-uber, taxi, crime

3.法國巴黎漫畫雜誌社遭恐攻-Paris, magazine, Charlie Hebdo, attack

4.桃園大火-Taoyuan, fire/ blaze, six firefighters

Assignment for 2014-02-Week 2

Topics for 2014-02-Week 2

1.雪梨人質事件-Sydney café, hostage

2.塔利班血洗軍校-Taliban, Pakistan, Peshawar school, kill/attack

3.紐約警察遭槍殺-NYPD, Rafael Ramos, Wenjian Liu, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, killed

4.台中歌劇院-National Taichung Theater, Toyo Ito

The pilots of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 cut power to a critical computer system that normally prevents planes from going out of control shortly before it plunged into the Java Sea, two people with knowledge of the investigation said.

The action appears to have helped trigger the events of Dec. 28 last year, when the Airbus Group A320 climbed so abruptly that it lost lift and it began falling with warnings blaring in the cockpit, the people said. All 162 on board were killed.

The pilots had been attempting to deal with alerts about the flight augmentation computers, which control the A320’s rudder and also automatically prevent it from going too slowly. After initial attempts to address the alerts, the flight crew cut power to the entire system, which is comprised of two separate computers that back each other up, the people said.

While the information helps show how an A320’s flight-protection system could have been bypassed, it does not explain why the pilots pulled the plane into a steep climb, the people said. Even with the computers shut off, the pilots should have been able to fly the plane manually, they said.

Airbus discourages pilots from cutting power to systems because electronics in the highly computerized aircraft are interconnected and turning off one component can affect others, Safety Operating Systems chief executive officer John Cox said in an interview.

“Particularly with an Airbus you don’t do that,” said Cox, a former A320 pilot.

what -AirAsia Flight QZ8501 cut power to a critical computer system that normally prevents planes from going out of control shortly before it plunged into the Java Sea

when-Dec. 28 last year

why-out power to a critical computer system that normally prevents planes 

who-AirAsia Flight QZ850

how-not given

Assignment for 2014-02-Week 1

Topics for 2014-02-Week 1

1.墨生遭殺害-Mexico, missing students, dead/ killed/ murdered

2.美種族衝突-Eric Garner, NYPD, I can’t breathe, chokehold

3.亞航墜機-Air Asia, 8501, crash/ wreckage

4.頂新毒油-Ting Hsin, Wei Ying-chung, cooking oil, tainted oil scandal

Assignment for 2014-01-Week 7

Topics for 2014-01-Week 7

1.香港佔中-Hong Kong, occupy central, Leung Chun-ying, (umbrella revolution)

2.加拿大國會槍擊案-Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, shooting, gunman

3.喜馬拉雅山雪崩-Himalaya, avalanche(blizzard), hiker(trekker)

4.餿水油(地溝油)-Chang Guann, gutter oil(tainted tard oil)

Assignment for 2014-01-Week 6

Topics for 2014-01-Week 6

1.伊拉克ISIS-Iraq, IS(Islamic State)

2.蘇格蘭獨立公投-Scottish independence referendum

3.日本火山爆發-Japan, volcano, eruption, Mount. Ontake

4.年輕演員吸毒-actor, Ko, Jaycee, drug, arrest