- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; First Edition edition (6 July 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006530451
- ISBN-13: 978-0006530459
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 19.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 638,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Once the book has caught your attention, it is hard to throw off its spell.’
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Most people who have flown have experienced the fear of flying: moistened palms, white knuckles, a racing heart. The Black Box – transcriptions from the cockpit voice recorder – justifies that fear. Discover how it feels to be seconds from death.
When a plane goes down, it often takes hundreds of lives with it. The smash hit ‘Black Box’ TV series, screened in 1996, proved how perverse this fascination with the dangers of flying is. Flying is exciting because it’s frightening.
The Black Box is a shocking new selection of air disasters transcribed from the cockpit voice recorder retrieved from the wreckage of real life plane disasters. Here are the last moments of twenty-five crashes of varying degrees of annihilation recorded in horrifying detail. MacPherson documents each disaster, giving additional information surrounding the event, including the weather conditions and the details of key individuals involved. Innocent cockpit conversation can quickly turn to panic with the realization that a crash is inevitable and there are only moments left to live. But, sometimes, the wait for impact is painfully drawn out and the crew prepare for death with surprising calm. Sometimes there are survivors. More often, however, there are none. The Black Box is frightening and ghoulish. It is also impossible to put down.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fascinating and powerful accounts,
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This review is from: The Black Box: Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-flight Accidents (Hardcover)
This collection of Voice Recorder transcripts is an excellent production that puts you right in the pilots seat. Some of the extracts are from the widely reported big jet disasters such as United's DC-10 at Sioux City and JAL's 747 mountain crash, but give a higher degree of immediacy than you would expect. The less well known extracts are even more powerful, as you read each line not sure of what is coming next - in this respect much like the crew and passengers. This book should not frighten - as in most cases the pilots did a thoroughly professional job to try and save their aircraft, even if the odds were tragically stacked against them. Recommended, along with Mac Job's Air Disaster series.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A Great Book for any Aviation Enthusiast,
This review is from: The Black Box: Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-flight Accidents (Hardcover)
I recieved this book today and i am amazed with the amount of detail and information the book contains. Its very interesting to find out why these planes crash, and although is dramatic, does not excite and dramatise the crash. This is a book for anyone who likes aviation or is interested as to why these machines which fly millions of people every year around the world crash.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Spookily fascinating...,
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This review is from: The Black Box: Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-flight Accidents (Hardcover)
Read this in 6 hours, could not put it down.
McPherson captured my intrigue brilliantly in the prologue! :) Do not hesitate buy....
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