MAYDAY: Accident Reports and Voice Transcripts from Airline Crash Investigations
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Author(s)Marion F. Sturkey
PublisherHeritage Press International
ISBN / ASIN0965081435
ISBN-139780965081436
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank270,018
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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.