MAYDAY: Accident Reports and Voice Transcripts from Airline Crash Investigations
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (961 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0965081435 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 461 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
After retirement from the corporate world he began researching and writing articles and books about military issues, aviation concerns, and history. MAYDAY is one of his 13 books. The author served as a military pilot in the U.S. He later worked in various managerial capacities at AT&T for 25 years. Thereafter he became a commercial pilot for the oi
J. Baker said A nail-biter. 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 "A nail-biter" according to J. Baker. 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 200A nail-biter 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.. . 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.. 00A nail-biter 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.. . 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.. "Five Stars" according to Ken Chirkis. Great book for Aviation Safety enthusiasts.. ex-airline employee review 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".
They re-live the airline accidents which have marred man's conquest of the skies. Also, accidents caused by sabotage, suicide, fuel exhaustion, mistaken identity shoot-down, spatial disorientation, hazardous weather, controlled flight into terrain, and other perils. MAYDAY examines airline accidents caused by mechanical failure, fire, mid-air collision, terrorist hijacking, and human error. For each accident the reader witnesses the aerial crisis, the crash, the black-box recording, the investigation,
--SciTech Book NewsWe just received MAYDAY here in New York. 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.