Boeing’s Crisis and the Moral Imperative in Aviation

  For my recent event, I chose the December 2022 polar vortex.  I picked this event because the polar vortex is one of those events many people have heard of but do not fully understand its power or the domino effect it causes.  The event I chose to analyze affected air travel across the U.S. and was just an incredible event of changing aviation operations so quickly.  It was also a period of multiple interacting hazards, as snow, ice, and winds affected operations differently across locations.  In Seattle, there were low-visibility issues.  In the Midwest, airports were struggling to remove snow as it was piling up so quickly.  As a professional in the aviation industry, this event just reiterated to me that hazards frequently occur together, making aviation operations much more complicated than they already are.  The fundamental cause of this event was a disruption of the polar vortex.  The polar vortex is a circulation pattern that usually...