An examination of air safety, ranging from geriatric aircraft to pilot error, from sabotage to the weather, from overcrowded skies to tiny maintenance slips and from skimping on costs to muddled communications. Stephen Barlay's other books include "Air Crash Detective" and "Ruling Passion".
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Barlay ( Aircrash Detective ) displays an impressive acquaintance with air travel worldwide, from the planes themselves to the temperaments of pilots. He explains factors that can lead to tragedy in the air: anomalies in the weather, fire or toxic gases in the passenger cabin, lax maintenance of the aircraft, metal fatigue in planes, defective airports where neither facilities nor services are "even up to rubbish standards," linguistic problems arising from violation of the rule that English is the language of the air. What angers Barlay most is the refusal of the industry to learn from previous disasters and near-disasters; for example, there were 22 icing accidents between 1970 and 1982, but nothing was done to solve the problem until an airplane went down in the Potomac with heavy loss of life. The book is excellent, with one exception: the text is awash in acronyms which a more ingenious author might have avoided. Photos.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
In this expose of the dangers of commercial flight, Barlay arrives at a grim and inevitable conclusion: airline disasters tend to repeat themselves. His premise is that there are never any "new" accidents--airlines just do not learn from past experiences with weather, human error, mechanical problems, aging aircraft, icing, sabotage, and other factors. Most airline tragedies are not accidents but rather the result of ignorance, forgetfulness, and indifference. This is an unsettling indictment that blames the airline industry for not making itself safer, that criticizes the crash investigators for failing to enforce safety rules, and that faults the flying public for not demanding better safety standards.
- William A. McIntyre, New Hampshire Technical Coll., L.R.C., Nashua
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- William A. McIntyre, New Hampshire Technical Coll., L.R.C., Nashua
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Great book on the subject,
By Leif Gundtoft (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Final Call, The (Hardcover)
The book gives a critical view of the system associated with the detection and specially prevention of airline disasters. The authors general theme is that although accidents are not completely preventable, the conflicting interesses of the parties involved in the industry; the manufactures, the airlines, the authorities etc. often allow preventable repeated accidents to happen. The author supports his point of view with numerous examples, clearly documented with a lot of interviews of the players involved. For anyone interested in a behind the scenes look written by an author which allows lay-man to follow the conversation, I would recommend this book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Final Call by Stephen Barlay,
By Karl Murphy (Winfield, KS USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Final Call: Air Disasters - When Will They Ever Learn? (Paperback)
A difficult book to read at times, it is a must read for an in-depth look into why aircraft accidents continue to occur. If hindsight is truly 20/20, this writing reiterates the need for better safety systems in the air transportation industry. From pilot error to terrorism, Barlay covers it all in a sometimes difficult read (the author seems to make an assumption that the reader is already intimate with many accidents) , but I would higly recommend it to anyone that can get a hold of it.
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