MAYDAY examines airline accidents caused by mechanical failure, fire, mid-air collision, terrorist hijacking, and human error. Also, accidents caused by sabotage, suicide, fuel exhaustion, mistaken identity shoot-down, spatial disorientation, hazardous weather, controlled flight into terrain, and other perils. For each accident the reader witnesses the aerial crisis, the crash, the black-box recording, the investigation, and the often-elusive Probable Cause. Readers embark on a brutally factual journey through Commercial Aviation history. They re-live the airline accidents which have marred man's conquest of the skies. MAYDAY is a gut-wrenching and mesmerizing read for all Aviation Enthusiasts and Aviation Professionals.
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The flight engineer reassures the crew of the struggling freight airplane -- OK, it's clear now! One second later the plane explodes on the ground, taking three lives and eight million dollars of material with it. This collection of horrific crashes includes overviews of the events, descriptions of the flights, transcripts of the cockpit recordings, and explanations of the investigations and Probable Causes, ranging from the crash of the Zeppelin airship Hindenburg in 1937 to the events of September 11, 2001, and the loss of the NASA space shuttle, Columbia, in 2003. Sturkey, a retired military and commercial pilot, writes for fellow professionals but carefully considers general readers with interests in aviation, focusing on the educational aspects of each crash, giving sound advice (no one ever collided with the sky) and providing photos and illustrations of events and their aftermath. --SciTech Book News
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The author served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Thereafter he worked in civil aviation, corporate security, and law enforcement for 29 years. After retirement from the corporate world he began researching and writing articles and books about military and aviation concerns. MAYDAY is one of his ten books.
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This review is from: MAYDAY: Accident Reports and Voice Transcripts from Airline Crash Investigations (Perfect Paperback)
This book reprints Voice Recorder Transcripts (when available) and NTSB findings (in terse, direct phrases) for SELECTED airline incidents, mostly from 1960 to the Columbia breakup in 2003. He generally strives not to be melodramatic in his recreations, which is a definite plus. The only thing I find annoying is his absolute refusal to reprint profanities and vulgarities spoken by the pilots in their final moments (he constantly equivocates with ("Expletive"), or my favorite ("Name of The Son Of The Deity")). But you can usually figure out what they're saying, or choose your own euphemisms.
A good book.
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I was employed by a major airline for over 10 years. The book is well written and should be read by anyone interested in airline safety. Safety was a priorty with the company I worked for, but found my employer listed, which didn't suprise me.
If you want to read more about the subject I suggest you read, "Unfriendly Skies" and "Flying Blind, Flying Safe".
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Stupid Mistakes...,
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This is a must read for anyone who is a Pilot or likes to fly. This book reviews some of the worst aircraft accidents in history with an emphasis on pilot error (mostly stupid ones)or equipment failures for the most part. Good interesting reading with many "Black Box" conversations or a radio log. Not overly detailed but an excellent over view or reminder for both pilots and the general public. Covers the Hindenberg to the Space Shuttles as well as 9/11 incidents.
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relief first officer, jackscrew assembly, unidentified crewmember, whirl mode flutter, two factors that contributed, horizontal windshear, command first officer, young first officer, flight control inputs, wingtip vortex, chemical oxygen generators, activating lever, crew module, cockpit conversation, dove into the ground, taxi checklist, takeoff attempt, whoop whoop, flight idle, small airliner, aircraft collided, acme screw, range airliner, emergency descent, minimum descent altitude Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Commercial Pilot by Jack Rudman on 4 pages
- Air America by Christopher Robbins on page 207
- Spotlight on America: The Wright Brothers by Robert Smith on page 247
- World Airlines (Sentinel) by R. Sowter on page 337
- Ventura County by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 383
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