AIR CRASHES AND MIRACLE LANDINGS ... How, When and Most Importantly Why - Softcover

Bartlett, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956072313 ISBN 13: 9780956072313

Publisher: OpenHatch Books, 2009

Synopsis

Good overview of the major accidents, with each chapter dealing with a particular type of incident listed in chronological order, so that those of most interest and narrated in detail are not necessarily first, but easily found thanks to the Index, Table of Contents and Foreword to each.

Detailed accounts include:
Amelia Earhart's Last Flight, a safe landing on a mid-Atlantic Island after an 80-Mile Glide, the Hudson River ditching, Avianca Flight 52, a 100-M.P.H. runway overrun at Bangkok by the so-called world's safest airline, the Lake Constance mid-air collision after which the air traffic controller was stabbed to death by a father of two of the many children on board, the worst-ever multi-aircraft disaster (KLM/Pan Am at Teneriffe), the worst-ever single-aircraft Disaster (JL123 in Japan), the supersonic Concorde, the DC-10, ValuJet, Air France Flight AF447, how masking tape left by an aircraft cleaner on air inlets "blinds" a Peruvian 757, the Red Baron, Helios Airways where the aircraft flew up and on with the pilots unconscious, how a U.S warship shot down an Iranian airliner, Nine-Eleven ...

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Review

Got it. Read it. Want more.
I think the book is excellent--interestingly presented and gripping to read.
--Phillip Knightley, author and prize-winning journalist

Edition details

• Publisher: OpenHatch Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956072313
• ISBN 13: 9780956072313
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364