Peter Pigott

Brace for Impact

Air Crashes and Aviation Safety

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

So many planes seem to fall from the sky or disappear completely. But are accidents really so common and why do they happen in the first place? Brace for Impact traces the evolution of accident investigation and explains why flying is the safest form of travel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 189mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9781459732520
• ISBN-10: 1459732529
• Artikelnr.: 43748748

Autorenporträt

Peter Pigott is Canada's foremost aviation author. Among his accomplishments are the histories of Air Canada, Trans-Canada Airlines, and Canadian Airlines. He is the author of From Far and Wide, Sailing Seven Seas, Canada in Sudan, and many more books. He lives in Ottawa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 
1 Flying Too Close to the Sun 
2 Knights of the Air and the Great War 
3 Barnstormers, Flaming Coffins, and Death Mockers 
4 Lindbergh, Leo the Lion, and Air Mail Aces 
5 Celebrity Deaths and the Rise of Commercial Passenger Flight 
6 Lancasters, LORAN, and the Second World War 
7 Make Way for Tomorrow: The Comet Crashes 
8 A False Start for the Black Box 
9 Kicking Tin and Coping with Disaster 
10 No Longer Deaf and Mute: FDRs and CVRs Become Law 
11 Douglas Death Cruisers and Mourning Becomes Electra 
12 Terror in Tenerife, Pilot Error, and Air Traffic Chaos 
13 Deregulation and Fighting Fire with Decrees 
14 Aviation's Annus Horribilis 
15 Regional Air Tragedy: The Kegworth and Dryden Perfect Storms 
16 Watchdogs of Air Travel and Accidents 
17 Nationair and ValuJet: Folly upon Folly 
18 Swissair One-Eleven Heavy 
19 Complex Systems Failing in Complex Ways 
Notes 
Acknowledgements 
Index