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The crash detectives : investigating the world's most mysterious air disasters / Christine Negroni.

by Negroni, Christine.

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Penguin Books, 2016.

363.12465 N394c

Aircraft accidents -- Investigation.

Aircraft accidents -- Human factors.

Aeronautics -- Safety measures.

9780143127321 (pbk.)

xi, 276 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-268) and index.

Mystery -- Conspiracy -- Fallibility -- Humanity -- Resiliency.

Aviation journalist and air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes us inside crash investigations from the early days of the jet age to the present, including the search for answers about what happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. As Negroni dissects what happened and why, she explores their common themes and, most important, what has been learned from them to make planes safer. As Negroni shows, virtually every aspect of modern pilot training, airline operation, and airplane design has been shaped by lessons learned from disaster. She details some miraculous saves, when quick-thinking pilots averted catastrophe and kept hundreds of people alive. Tying in aviation science, performance psychology, and extensive interviews with pilots, engineers, human factors specialists, crash survivors, and others involved in accidents all over the world, The Crash Detectives is an alternately terrifying and inspiring book that might just cure your fear of flying, and will definitely make you a more informed passenger.

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