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Volume 2 follows on from the excellent tradition of accident reporting established with Volume 1 of the Air Disaster series.
More accidents, more lessons and is there a pilot amongst us, private or professional, who hasn’t read these books and thought carefully about an experience or two?
Hopefully, these books will make us all realise just how ‘human’ we are, whether on the ground or in the air, in most cases it is we who dictate the outcome of these tragic events long before fate takes a hand.
Amongst others, Volume 2 uncovers the dramas behind the Chicago DC-10 rollover, the Aloha 737 cabin peelback, the BA 747 that lost all four engines whilst transiting a cloud of volcanic ash south of Jakarta. Then there is the double flameout of the DC-9 enroute to Atlanta, the ditching of the 727 out of New Orleans and the Sioux City DC-10 that almost made it.
Nor are the human factors in these sagas overlooked – the psychology of perception, comprehension and communication on both flightdeck and the ground provides a constant background to the unfolding drama.
Of 218 pages, Air Disaster Vol 2 makes compelling reading and is again backed up with the excellent descriptive artwork of noted aviation artist Matthew Tesch.
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