Aircraft Safety : Accident Investigations, Analyses, & Applications, Second Edition

Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0071409742
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
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Editorial Reviews

Product Description:

* This worldwide bestseller utilizes case studies to examine and explain aircraft accidents and incidents

* Covers five major problem causes: human factors, weather, mid-air collisions, mechanical failure, runway incursions

* NEW TO THIS EDITION: Chapters on Monitoring/Managing Cockpit Behavior and Spatial Disorientation; 27 new case studies; 25% new illustrations

* Updated data and statistics throughout

Customer Reviews

Great Read by Elijah Chingosho
I enjoyed reading this book which I found to be fascinating and enlightening. The case studies on several past accidents were particularly illuminating in explaining why serious aircraft accidents and incidents happen.

The book provides a comprehensive coverage of aircraft accidents, highlighting the major causes and how similar accidents can be prevented in future. The author rightly emphasizes on human factor issues which are the cause of most airplane incidents and accidents. The author methodically and clearly highlights the five main causes of accidents namely human factors, weather, mid-air collisions, mechanical failure and runway incursions. The writing style is easy to follow and understand.

This is a fantastic book which is recommended reading for those with an interest in preventing or reducing aircraft incidents and accidents.

80% of the book is copy and past of NTSB reports by Amine Mecifi
I was disapointed by this book. The author ideas are very intersting and deserve 5 stars. However, every chapter starts with very few pages of text then continues with a copy/past of NTSB reports. The book has about 500 pages more than 400 arn’t original work but just publicly available accident reports.

Aircraft Safety : Accident Investigations, Analyses, & Applications, Second Edition by James Covington
Very well written and researched. This book breaks down each accident with CVR transcripts and lessons learned. A must of an

Aircraft Safety reader.

Good General Accident Analysis by Robert I. Hedges
I am not sure what Shari Krause’s Ph. D. is in, but I would guess psychology given the human factors emphasis evident in this book. Indeed, human factors play an overriding factor in many if not most accidents and she gives good and bad examples of Cockpit Resource Management (CRM) and Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM) in the numerous case studies in this book.

The book is designed in broad categories of accident types (for example, ‘Weather’ and ‘Mid-Air Collisions’), which are further broken down by specific hazard type (’Thunderstorms’ and ‘Turbulence’, for instance) and illustrated with case studies largely taken from NTSB reports. Most of the case studies are excellent, and her analysis is generally quite good, although her specific systems knowledge is occasionally not up to speed (for instance, in the L-1011 autoflight discussion of EAL 401, and in the hydraulic system discussion in the 737 rudder hardover accidents). The minor systems errors and misconceptions found in these sections would be virtually undetectable to someone who had not flown the specific aircraft in question, and at any rate are mere annoyances at worst. The overall level of analysis is good enough that trivial details don’t take away from the greater points she makes.

Overall, the book is a quite comprehensive text and should be read by pilots and aviation personnel of all experience levels. Her discussions of weather accidents and runway incursions were superlative. Particularly well covered were icing and microburst accidents, though I think she went a little far in her discussion of ‘giant anteater clouds’.

Distractions for me were what I thought were a relatively large number of typographical errors, including the very annoying, often repeated (likely spell check induced) “HIS” instead of “HSI”. The systems quibbles were minor as well, but nonetheless a distraction in some instances. The effort to make the book ‘current’ by including the Air France Concorde accident was a mistake. The summary presented was evidently taken from a sole internet source and completely devoid of useful information.

On balance, I think this is an excellent effort, and should be read by all pilots, the earlier in their career, the better.

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