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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Another solid tome if you're into the crashes. Another list of things not to do. (  ) tmstimbert | Aug 7, 2008 |  I was less than thrilled with this book. The author chooses not to dramatize or personalize the situation, nor to go into great technical detail, leaving the voice recorder accounts to speak for themselves with some minor annotations. I've read some NTSB reports, which give the cockpit voice recorders in full, and find that they can be intriguing. But this version leaves out the time, and way too often summarizes, which helps dent the cold sharp reading a real voice recording can have. It wasn't a complete loss, but with Wikipedia and the original NTSB reports available online, there's much more interesting, in-depth and just plain better sources for many of these cases, and many more he doesn't cover. (  ) prosfilaes | Jan 13, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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Anyone who watches the news knows about the "black box." Officially called the cockpit voice recorder, the black box (which is actually Day-glo orange) records the final moments of any in-flight accident. Often it provides the only explanation of a crash -- inevitably, it provides a heart-breaking, second-by-second account of intense fear tempered by unyielding professionalism.
This 1984 Quill title has been completely updated to include twenty-eight new incidents occurring between 1978 and 1996. Some are famous, like the 1996 Valujet crash in the Everglades and the ill-fated launch of the space shuttle Challenger; other disasters range from commuter prop aircraft to jumbo airliners and a pair of Air Force planes. Few have ever been revealed in their entirety, each, without exception, is absolutely gripping.
In this new edition, editor Malcolm MacPherson has, wherever possible, added weather notes and descriptions of events in the cockpit and cabin, heightening our vivid sense of being there during the final moments. Provided by the National Transportation Safety Board and vetted by an experienced airline captain, these are unforgettable case studies in ultimate emergency -- authentic, immediate, filled with drama, terror, human frailty and error, and unquenchable courage.
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