Close examinations of more than 40 airline and general aviation accidents provide life-saving lessons for pilots and other professionals concerned with aircraft safety.
Fifty Years of Aviation Accidents in the Music Industry - Covering the 50 year period between 1935 and 1985, this 540- page book analyzes 34 aviation accidents, which affected the music in our world in some way. From the most famous American artists, such as Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline, Rick Nelson and Lynyrd Skynyrd, to the lesser-known international performers Carlos Gardel, Anna Jantar, Tamara and Kyu Sakamoto, this text covers many types of music and the talents who were affected by adverse aviation events.
MID-AIR offers readers brutally authentic accounts of collisions involving Military aircraft and Civil transports. Each chapter is a window through which readers re-live the aerial crisis, the voice transcript (where available), the collision, the investigation, and the Probable Cause.
What went wrong, why, and what can be done about it - this book examines factors that have led to past accidents so readers can avoid repeating them. Hard cover, 254 pages, indexed.
Pan, Pan, Pan is the story of how I dreamed of being a pilot and never gave up on that dream. It is also an account of having crashed into the ocean twice and living to tell about it. Pan, Pan, Pan shares my love of flying and my desire to do all that I can to help keep the airways safe.
These are the words that haunt Captain Charlie Wells when he realizes that his jumbo jet has a problem over the Atlantic. None of the passengers or crew could know that a disgruntled airline mechanic has sentenced them to a night of terror. As the flight approaches the Equal Time Point and is the most distant from land, Captain Wells and his crew of pilots and flight attendants struggle to avoid making history.
