AIR CRASHES AND MIRACLE LANDINGS -- Sixty Narratives
and over 900,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £2.85
Trade in Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: Sixty Narratives for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £2.85, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Product Description
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
Sets out to answer how and why accidents happened. All are catalogued in detail and make very interesting reading.
--AEROPLANE Magazine, September 2010
Reads beautifully, with excellent and clear expression avoiding tiresome cliches that unfortunately so often mar books on this fascinating subject.
--Macarthur Job OAM Aviation Writer and Air Safety Consultant
Covers a good breadth of common terms and history in a form that is easy to read and to digest.
--Martin Downes, The Aerospace Professional published by the Royal Aeronautical Society, March 2011
I think the book is excellent--interestingly presented and gripping to read.
----Phillip Knightley, author and prize-winning journalist
Sets out to answer how and why accidents happened. All are catalogued in detail and make very interesting reading.
--AEROPLANE Magazine, September 2010
Reads beautifully, with excellent and clear expression avoiding tiresome cliches that unfortunately so often mar books on this fascinating subject.
--Macarthur Job OAM Aviation Writer and Air Safety Consultant
Covers a good breadth of common terms and history in a form that is easy to read and to digest.
--Martin Downes, The Aerospace Professional published by the Royal Aeronautical Society, March 2011
Product Description
A classic combining several types of aviation disaster book in one. Vividly retells incidents that made headlines at the time, while explaining why they happened and the lessons they provided to make air travel so safe today. Individuals covered include Germany's World War I fighter ace,the Red Baron, aviatrix Amelia Earhart, and Captain Piché who ran out of fuel and managed to glide 80 miles to plunge down safely on a mid-Atlantic island. Includes the Comet disasters that revealed the dangers of metal fatigue, the U.K.'s Kegworth air disaster where the pilots shut down the good engine, the worst-ever aircraft disasters (Tenerife and JL123), the mid-air collision between an airliner full of children and a freighter after which one of the fathers killed the air traffic controller he thought responsible, the supersonic Concorde, 9/11, AA587, the Hudson River ditching, and the mysterious loss of Air France AF447... To avoid repetition, explanations of technical terms and procedures were placed in an appendix, now published separately as "THE FLYING DICTIONARY". Makes the narratives even more interesting and a fascinating read in its own right.
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Aircraft disasters revealed,
By
This review is from: Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: Sixty Narratives (Paperback)
For anyone who is interested in aircraft disasters (and who isn't - go on admit it!) this book is a real treat. The technical level is just right, ie enough but not overwhelming. And the issue of blame is fairly and intelligently argued. It makes a fascinating read - as good as any novel! It ought to be compulsory reading for everyone in the industry! BTW, the companion volume "The Flying Dictionary" by the same author is equally good - one of the few dictionaries that make a good read in themselves!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great "Wot Dun It",
By
This review is from: Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: Sixty Narratives (Paperback)
I got this for my brother-in-law. He works in the aviation industry and said it was great. My sister isn't, and has never shown any interest in such things, and even she liked it. Who'd have thought?!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Made sense to a layman like myself--surprisingly reassuring,
This review is from: Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: Sixty Narratives (Paperback)
As an air traveller of considerable experience I was a little apprehensive when my brother insisted I read this book. However, once I started, I could not put it down. It was like reading a series of detective stories, with each air crash or near disaster landing making me eager to read the next chapter. I expected to be somewhat concerned about the subject, but in fact the author makes one feel more relaxed about aircraft and even crashes.I liked his summing up at the end of the narratives, and the presentation of ways safety might be improved in the last chapter.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
|
Most Recent Customer Reviews |
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
