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Air Disaster, Volume 3, continues the now well known theme of Volumes 1 and 2 of this series, examining the way hitherto unsuspected hazards in the world’s airways system have been revealed through occasional tragic, but salutary experiences.
This volume covers a further number of such accidents, all of them occurring since the late eighties. They include a display flight in which the highly experienced captain simply tried too hard, cases in which ice and snow on the wings – overlooked for complex reasons – prevented aircraft from becoming airborne, a wiring fault in a cargo door mechanism that became a virtual timebomb, instances where the interface between the crew and the aircraft’s automated flight systems proved inadequate, two mysterious loss of control disasters, seemingly induced by severely disturbed air, and an astonishing story of a teenage boy’s visit to the flightdeck that triggered a total catastrophe in remote Siberia.
Selected to exemplify the operational and human obstacles brought to light as the airline industry moves into the final years of the twentieth century – and its fourth decade of international operations – the eight chapters, examining 13 complex accidents, draw chiefly on official investigations, fleshed out by further definitive research from a number of sources. As with earlier volumes, the lucid text is generously supplemented with accurate, specially drawn diagrams which, with the photographs, bring the compelling events to life.
Air Disaster, Volume 3, covering the latter eighties and early nineties, is yet another excellent result of the expert collaboration between publisher, writer and illustrator. Necessary reading for pilots, airline personnel and all with an interest in today’s airline operations, it is an Aerospace Publications product not to be missed!
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