MAYDAY: Accident Reports and Voice Transcripts from Airline Crash Investigations

Binding: Perfect Paperback
ASIN: 0965081435
Manufacturer: Heritage Press International
Average Customer Review: (From 3 total reviews)
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Editorial Reviews

Product Description:
MAYDAY examines airline accidents caused by mechanical failure, fire, mid-air collision, terrorist hijacking, and human error. Also, accidents caused by sabotage, suicide, fuel exhaustion, mistaken identity shoot-down, spatial disorientation, hazardous weather, controlled flight into terrain, and other perils. For each accident the reader witnesses the aerial crisis, the crash, the black-box recording, the investigation, and the often-elusive Probable Cause. Readers embark on a brutally factual journey through Commercial Aviation history. They re-live the airline accidents which have marred man’s conquest of the skies. MAYDAY is a gut-wrenching and mesmerizing read for all Aviation Enthusiasts and Aviation Professionals.

Customer Reviews

ex-airline employee review by M. Looney
I was employed by a major airline for over 10 years. The book is well written and should be read by anyone interested in airline safety. Safety was a priorty with the company I worked for, but found my employer listed, which didn’t suprise me.

If you want to read more about the subject I suggest you read, “Unfriendly Skies” and “Flying Blind, Flying Safe”.

Good for a beginner by Paul Cronk
This is a great text as an introductory reference to enthusiasts.

Each individual incident is covered only to a very basic level.

Would have liked to seen much more information for each event.

Text is rather large. Would prefer smaller text and more of it.

Definately worth the read.

I’ll never fly again by Robert M. Matthews
I’ve always found it interesting to read the details of airliner crashes in the newspaper, particularly when they include portions of the Cockpit Voice Recorder. This is the automatically recorded conversations of the Pilot and other air crew members immediately preceeding a crash. It is worrisome that so many passengers have lost their lives because numbskulls in the cockpit have simply miscalculated and run out of fuel, forgotten to do their pre-flight checklist or had the flap control in the wrong position. Of course, there are many examples of mechanical failures which spell unavoidable doom for all aboard as well as wind-shear slamming the aircraft into the ground. Like a rubber necker at a grisly accident scene, you will be privvy to all the gory details, like the cockpit warning system pleading “Pull Up! Pull Up!” and the violent sounds of objects on the ground tearing wings off the aircraft on impact. As for me, well I’ll be walking . . .

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