Award Korean Air
Outliers, RR#10
1. Citation: Gladwell,Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008. Pp. 177-200.
2. Summary: First two parts of chapter seven tells that Korean airlines have a high rate of crashing. According to the record, the loss rete for Korean Air in the period 1988 to 1998 was more than seventeen times higher than in the same period of United Airlines. But it turned itself around since 1999. In 2006, Air Transport World gave the Phoenix Award Korean Air in recognition of its transformation. In this chapter, it’s going to conduct a crash investigation by listen to the “black box”; look at the weather and the terrain and the air conditions; all in an attempt to understand precisely how the company transformed itself from the worst kind of outlier into one of the world’s best airlines. It is turns on a very simple fact, the same act that runs through the tangled history of Harlan and the Michigan students. Korean Air didn’t succeed because it didn’t right itself. We can know that how important of its cultural legacy. ZHU 2
3. Comment: Plane crashes are a very terrible problem also in today’s world. With the development of economic, plane become a very important transportation for modern people. As well, the safety of plane is a very important part. But today, we also get some news that plane crashes in some countries. I think that it is a questions that is hard to ignore all the time, through the book, we can know more about the cause about plane crashes, I think it also help us to think more about choose air company in later life.
4. Word: incapacitated
Sentence: there is some concern as to whether First Officers on the Classic fleet could land the aircraft if the captain became totally incapacitated.
Definition: lacking in or deprived of strength or
1. Citation: Gladwell,Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008. Pp. 177-200.
2. Summary: First two parts of chapter seven tells that Korean airlines have a high rate of crashing. According to the record, the loss rete for Korean Air in the period 1988 to 1998 was more than seventeen times higher than in the same period of United Airlines. But it turned itself around since 1999. In 2006, Air Transport World gave the Phoenix Award Korean Air in recognition of its transformation. In this chapter, it’s going to conduct a crash investigation by listen to the “black box”; look at the weather and the terrain and the air conditions; all in an attempt to understand precisely how the company transformed itself from the worst kind of outlier into one of the world’s best airlines. It is turns on a very simple fact, the same act that runs through the tangled history of Harlan and the Michigan students. Korean Air didn’t succeed because it didn’t right itself. We can know that how important of its cultural legacy. ZHU 2
3. Comment: Plane crashes are a very terrible problem also in today’s world. With the development of economic, plane become a very important transportation for modern people. As well, the safety of plane is a very important part. But today, we also get some news that plane crashes in some countries. I think that it is a questions that is hard to ignore all the time, through the book, we can know more about the cause about plane crashes, I think it also help us to think more about choose air company in later life.
4. Word: incapacitated
Sentence: there is some concern as to whether First Officers on the Classic fleet could land the aircraft if the captain became totally incapacitated.
Definition: lacking in or deprived of strength or