Flight of the Phoenix
Flight of the Phoenix
By: Kole Stambaugh
MGT410
11-18-12 Introduction
The movie starts out in the early 1930’s, flying an older plain through the desert. They lose their radio along with voltage regulator, they are heading for Benghazi. Lew Moran forgets to tell Frank Towns about a loud or squeaky pulley in the starboard side of the plane, so Frank must have a look at it. As they are flying they get caught in a bad sand storm and loose both engines due to sand getting in there carburetors and such losing power. Frank Towns or the pilot of the aircraft decided he should put the wheels down as without doing so would make the plane totally in operable to fly again. When he finally puts the plane down along the way a few straps holding some heavy items breaks and kills two of the men in the crash. It also crushes the one guy that was sitting in the back. When they crashed, they were a little over a hundred miles off course and not only that they didn’t have any radio to signal for help. Everyone is curtain that there will be in some way air support that will come and find them.
Group Dynamic and Impact of Team Roles
In the beginning when the plane initially crashes Frank Towns is very sad and heartbroken it seems as he was the one that killed the two men, and also severely injured another man. But before this he takes leadership and tells people what they need to do and how to do it. Lew Moran was trying to calm down Frank and keep him under control. Captain Harris is the one that gets everything organized and all situated out. His two main concerns were to have flairs at all times and also the water supply at which they will need to conserve. At the beginning Heinrich Dorfmann and Dr. Renaud don’t really say much nor do much. But it seems as though that Heinrich Dorfmann is doing a lot of reading and drawing on some papers.
A few days into being stranded out in the middle of the dessert some things have
By: Kole Stambaugh
MGT410
11-18-12 Introduction
The movie starts out in the early 1930’s, flying an older plain through the desert. They lose their radio along with voltage regulator, they are heading for Benghazi. Lew Moran forgets to tell Frank Towns about a loud or squeaky pulley in the starboard side of the plane, so Frank must have a look at it. As they are flying they get caught in a bad sand storm and loose both engines due to sand getting in there carburetors and such losing power. Frank Towns or the pilot of the aircraft decided he should put the wheels down as without doing so would make the plane totally in operable to fly again. When he finally puts the plane down along the way a few straps holding some heavy items breaks and kills two of the men in the crash. It also crushes the one guy that was sitting in the back. When they crashed, they were a little over a hundred miles off course and not only that they didn’t have any radio to signal for help. Everyone is curtain that there will be in some way air support that will come and find them.
Group Dynamic and Impact of Team Roles
In the beginning when the plane initially crashes Frank Towns is very sad and heartbroken it seems as he was the one that killed the two men, and also severely injured another man. But before this he takes leadership and tells people what they need to do and how to do it. Lew Moran was trying to calm down Frank and keep him under control. Captain Harris is the one that gets everything organized and all situated out. His two main concerns were to have flairs at all times and also the water supply at which they will need to conserve. At the beginning Heinrich Dorfmann and Dr. Renaud don’t really say much nor do much. But it seems as though that Heinrich Dorfmann is doing a lot of reading and drawing on some papers.
A few days into being stranded out in the middle of the dessert some things have