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All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts Of In-flight Accidents
Harper
August 1998
208 pages
ISBN: 0688158927
EAN: 9780688158927
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Readers join desperate pilots in the cockpit as they fight
gravity and time in a plane that's falling out of the sky. 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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