Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: 60 Narratives: (How, When and Most Importantly Why)
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (823 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0956072321 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 370 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Five Stars" according to D. Harrison Bray. Fascinatin and well-written. "Horrible! Grammar and spelling errors everywhere!" according to Al C.. UNREADABLE. A simply terrible book. This book is riddled with grammatical mistakes and misspellings, which makes the book impossible to read. The author is an amateur writer at best and whoever edited this book needs to be tried for crimes against the English language. I had to stop reading this for fears that it would actually make me stupid.I'm ashamed that Amazon would sell such crap. I was hoping to relax and read this book on Christmas after exchanging gifts, but I stopped everything I was doing (on Chr. this forest is worth a few missing trees Amazon Customer When an engineered system fails, and lives are lost, it is an ethical imperative for engineers to study the causative chain of events, regardless of the type of engineering they do. In that regard, books such as Perrow's Normal Accidents and Chiles' Inviting Disaster are must-reads.Despite the partially-deserved criticism from other reviewers that Air Crashes and Miracle Landings needed a closer encounter with a competent proofreader, I would include this book with the other two. It collects in one place a l
All are cataloged in detail and make very interesting reading, although not just before you board your holiday jet. --Phillip Knightley, author and prize-winning journalistAVIATION ACCIDENTS INVARIABLY attract media speculation on their causes, but it is sometimes months before the official investigators issue their reports, by which time anyone without a specific interest in a crash will have forgotten how they have often blamed the pilot who was probably not to blame anyway.This new book sets out to answer how, when, and why accidents happened, such as the shooting down of an Iranian Airbus A300 by an American warship
Christopher Bartlett initially trained as a mining engineer, a field where ensuring compliance with safety standards is of prime importance. He saw the need for a book such as this while residing in Bangkok, when a 100 M.P.H. This was engendered as an Air Cadet during his youth, as a member of the British Interplanetary Society, and as a pupil
These two accidents show how pilots, having become dependent on automation, may may not be able to cope with certain situations unless trained in a new way.As before, includes Tenerife (the worst-ever multi-aircraft disaster), Japan Airlines JL123 (the worst single-aircraft disaster), the de Havilland Comet (the first jetliner), DC-10, supersonic Concorde, Kegworth air disaster (where pilots mistakenly shut down the good engine), Piché's 80-mile glide to a safe landing on an island in the Atlantic after his fuel ran out, a mid-air collision where a father subsequently assassinated the air traffic controller he presumed was responsible, AA587 NYC, Avianca NYC, Sully's Hudson River ditching The lessons from these and the other accidents narrated and analysed here helped make flying so safe today. Those lessons are applicable in medicine and many other fields.. Major