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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, June 2006
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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, June 2006
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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 ancients dreamed of soaring with the birds. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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)
New York, United States, Trouble Ahead, Air Force, Aircraft Accident Report, Los Angeles, King Air, International Airport, United Airlines Flight, Commercial Pilot, American Airlines Flight, Korean Air, Agana Tower, Atlantic Ocean, Fort Worth, Gulf Air, New Zealand, Air Canada, Iran Air, Air Midwest, Departure Control, San Diego, World Trade Center, Ground Proximity Warning System, Bandar Abbas New!
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The ancients dreamed of soaring with the birds. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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)
New York, United States, Trouble Ahead, Air Force, Aircraft Accident Report, Los Angeles, King Air, International Airport, United Airlines Flight, Commercial Pilot, American Airlines Flight, Korean Air, Agana Tower, Atlantic Ocean, Fort Worth, Gulf Air, New Zealand, Air Canada, Iran Air, Air Midwest, Departure Control, San Diego, World Trade Center, Ground Proximity Warning System, Bandar Abbas New!
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- Commercial Pilot by National Learning Corporation 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 Jane's Information Group on page 337
- Ventura County by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 383
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