Deadly Departure of Flight 800 - Hardcover

Negroni, Christine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060194774 ISBN 13: 9780060194772

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000

Synopsis

A blistering behindthescenes look at the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 shows how the airline industry for years ignored an obvious design flaw that could cause explosions and discusses the politics that stymied the investigation of the crash.

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Review:

"Aimed not only at disaster buffs, but at readers curious about aviation, engineering, forensics, journalism, politics..." -- Publishers Weekly

"An excellent book." -- National Air Disaster Alliance

"An important new book." -- Air Safety Week

"An investigative reporter of the first rank, she writes in clear declarative sentences, avoids jargon and names names. She's at her best telling about digging up evidence of shocking decision." -- The Miami Herald

"Her book is full of details and revealing interviews with the major investigators...An excellent book." -- Long Island Newsday

"It ropes you in. A great book." -- Fox Television

Deadly Departure is a well-written, well-researched chronicle of events surrounding the crash of Flight 800. -- The New York Times Book Review, Andrew Chaikin

From the Author:

The story of what really happened to TWA Flight 800
Deadly Departure tells what really happened to Flight 800. TWA Flight 800 broke apart and crashed into the Atlantic thirteen minutes after taking off from JFK International Airport in New York, on July 17, 1996. Two hundred and thirty people were killed. Before dawn, I was on the scene, reporting the story for CNN.

It was tragic, horrifying, shocking. But what caused the plane to explode is not a mystery... tragedy.

As I continued to work this story I kept wondering why nothing was done to address the risk of fuel tank explosions after the first jetliner blew apart in a similar manner in 1963.

I spoke with hundreds of people in the commercial aviation industry and the agency that regulates it, the FAA. DEADLY DEPARTURE details the reasons cited, the excuses given.

To this day, a well known fuel system design flaw exists on thousands of aircraft.

My book is a trip into the heart of the most massive and expensive crash investigation ever conducted and the only account of what caused the 25-year old jumbo jet to self-destruct.

DEADLY DEPARTURE includes documented scenarios from investigators and scientists and personal stories of the heroes, villains and victims of the disaster.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0060194774
• ISBN 13: 9780060194772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256