Background
Who is the author?
Dan Koeppel
Is Koeppel's purpose to entertain, instruct, or entertain? Support your answer.
Does your evidence support your answer? Good, then you're correct!
(We think the answer is primarily to instruct)
To become to a 'wreckage rider' is a term coined by who?
(Also developed the Free Fall Research Page)
Jim Hamilton
At 6:59:00 am, 35,000 feet time heading it is mentioned that there are two ways to fall out of a plane. What are those two ways?
free-fall
wreckage rider
Name one extreme sport that the author is best known for?
Skydiving
Wave running
What function is served by the headings in this essay?
(Time and Feet)
Its function is to organize the information with the physical or mental feelings that you may experience during that time point of you falling depending on that time interval. It also provided past examples of people who have fallen out of a plane and the headings help organize this information.
Who holds the world record in the activity's banzai category?
Yasuhiro Kubo
At what time interval and 'feet hight' will you "enter a Zen state and decide to live" and understand what Hamilton notes, "that it isn't the fall that kills you - it's the landing."
7:00:20 a.m.
22,000 Feet
Where was Taking A Fall originally published in?
Popular Mechanics
What do the author's introduction and conclusion have in common?
It refers to 'you' in order to draw the reader in and have them make connections. It uses the reader's emotional standpoint to help them understand why they should get to know these tips and pass the information of this survival guide along to others.
In what year did Vesna Vulovic fall 33,000 feet when flying in a DC-9 over Czechoslovakia?
1972
At the 7:02:25 a.m., 0 feet heading Juliane Koepcke is mentioned. On the tenth day after her plane crashed what river did she rest by?
Shebonya River
Where does the author live now?
Los Angeles, California
What is hypoxia? At what time interval does hypoxia start to set in?
Hypoxia is the deficiency in the amount of oxygen that is reaching the tissues.
6:59:00 a.m.
35,000 feet
Juliana Koepcke suffered what type of injuries after her plane crashed on Christmas Eve, 1971?
broken collarbone, wounds, and infested with maggots
At what heading is what to do during a water landing mentioned and what does it require?
7:00:20 a.m., 22,000 feet
quick decision-making
The author uses the combination of ______ and _____ to explain the process of long-distance falling.
Humor
Basic physics
Statistically speaking, it's best to be a flight crew member, _______, or _________________
a child
traveling in a military aircraft
The Federal Aviation Agency studied that kids under what age have the best chance of survival and why?
Kids under the age of 4
They have more flexible skeletons, more relaxed muscle tonus, a higher proportion of subcutaneous fat, which helps protect the internal organs
Also smaller people have heads that are lower than the seat backs in front of them so they are better shielded from debris
Lower body weight reduces terminal velocity and reduced surface area decreases the chance of impalement when landing
At the heading 6:59:00 am, 35,000 feet it mentions what surviving _____________ is more common than surviving a pure free fall.
a plunge surrounded by a semi-protective cocoon of debris