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The Mystery of Flight 427

Author : Bill Adair
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588344029
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Flight 427 written by Bill Adair and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The immediate human toll of the 1994 Flight 427 disaster was staggering: all 132 people aboard died on a Pennsylvania hillside. The subsequent investigation was a maze of politics, bizarre theories, and shrouded answers. Bill Adair, an award-winning journalist, was granted special access to the five-year inquiry by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) while its investigators tried to determine if the world's most widely used commercial jet, the Boeing 737, was really safe. Their findings have had wide-ranging effects on the airline industry, pilots, and even passangers. Adair takes readers behind the scenes to show who makes decisions about airline safety—and why.

The Plane Truth

Author : Roger W. Cobb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815771975
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book The Plane Truth written by Roger W. Cobb and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying is an extremely safe way to travel. Fewer than 14,000 individuals perished in U.S. airline disasters during the twentieth century. In contrast, nearly three times as many people lose their lives in automobile accidents every year. Yet plane crashes have a tremendous impact on public perceptions of air safety in the United States. When a crash occurs domestically, media coverage is immediate and continuous. Government teams rush to investigate, elected officials offer condolences and promise to find the cause, and airlines and plane manufacturers seek to avoid responsibility. Regulations are frequently proposed in response to a particular incident, but meaningful change often does not occur. In The Plane Truth, Roger Cobb and David Primo examine the impact of high-visibility plane crashes on airline transportation policy. Regulation is disjointed and reactive, in part due to extensive media coverage of airline disasters. The authors describe the typical responses of various players—elected officials, investigative agencies, airlines, and the media. While all agree that safety is the primary concern in air travel, failure to agree on a definition of safety leads to policy conflicts. Looking at all airline crashes in the 1990s, the authors examine how particular features of an accident correspond to the level of media attention it receives, as well as how airline disasters affect subsequent actions by the National Transportation Safety Board, Federal Aviation Administration, and others. Three accidents are considered in detail: USAir flight 427 (September 1994), ValuJet flight 592 (May 1996), and TWA flight 800 (July 1996). The authors also discuss how the September 11 terrorist attacks turned attention away from safety and toward security. Cobb and Primo make several policy recommendations based on their findings. These include calling on lawmakers and regulators to avoid reactive regulation and instead to focus on systematic problems in a

Flight 427

Author : Gerry Byrne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387952567
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Flight 427 written by Gerry Byrne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-07-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Boeing 737 airliner focuses on US Airways Flight 427, which crashed in March 1994, near Pittsburgh, killing all 132 aboard. The author relates how that crash kicked off years of painstaking research by the NTSB, the FAA, and Boeing that finally uncovered a minor, yet lethal flaw that had been designed into the aircraft.

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS: LOST...The Crash of American Airlines Flight 965

Author : George Cramoisi, editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105639266
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS: LOST...The Crash of American Airlines Flight 965 written by George Cramoisi, editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 20, 1995, American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757-223, was on a scheduled passenger flight from Miami, Florida, U.S.A., to Cali, Colombia. Close to its final destination the pilots erroneously cleared the approach waypoints from their navigation computer. When the controller asked the pilots to check back in over Tulua, north of Cali, it was no longer programmed into the computer. They were lost and the aircraft crashed into a mountain. Of the 163 people on board, 4 passengers survived miraculously the accident.

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS: DEADLY MISTAKES The Crash of Air China Flight 129

Author : George Cramoisi, editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105705846
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS: DEADLY MISTAKES The Crash of Air China Flight 129 written by George Cramoisi, editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 15, 2002, Air China flight 129, a Boeing 767-200ER, operated by Air China, en route from Beijing, China to Busan, Korea, crashed on Mt. Dotdae, near Gimhae Airport, Busan. Of the 166 persons on board, 37 persons survived the crash, while 129 occupants were killed. The Korean Aviation Accident Investigation Board (KAAIB) determined that the probable cause of the crash was pilot error due to poor crew resource management and lost situational awareness during the circling approach of the runway. The Chinese investigation team pointed out that the Korean ATC was not fully licensed and mistakenly directed the airliner to descend to a wrong altitude and that the airport did not inform the crew of the weather conditions at the time. A contributing factor was that the airline made all announcements in Chinese and English, while most passengers were Korean.

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS, INFERNO IN AMSTERDAM The Crash of El Al Flight 1862

Author : George Cramoisi, editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105606228
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS, INFERNO IN AMSTERDAM The Crash of El Al Flight 1862 written by George Cramoisi, editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 4 October 1992, El Al Israel Airlines Flight 1862, a Boeing 747-200 Freighter, departed from Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, on its way to Tel Aviv, Israel. Seven minutes after take-off the plane lost engine no. 3 and 4 and crashed in an apartment block just outside Amsterdam, killing 43 people. The investigation concluded that the design and certification of the B 747 pylon was inadequate to provide the required level of safety. Furthermore the system to ensure structural integrity by inspection failed.

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS, CAPTAIN LOST CONTROL The Crash of Kenya Airways Flight 507

Author : Hank Williamson, editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105940888
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS, CAPTAIN LOST CONTROL The Crash of Kenya Airways Flight 507 written by Hank Williamson, editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the night of 04th May 2007, the B737-800, registration 5Y-KYA, operated by Kenya Airways as flight KQA 507 from Abidjan international airport (C te d'Ivoire), to the Jomo Kenyatta airport Nairobi (Kenya), made a scheduled stop-over at the Douala international airport (Cameroon). The weather was stormy. A number of departing planes decided to wait for the weather to improve. Kenya Airways, however, decided to depart. Shortly after take-off at about 1000 ft, the aircraft entered into a slow right roll that increased continuously and eventually ended up in a spiral dive. On the 5th May 2007 at approximately 0008 hrs, the airplane crashed in a mangrove swamp South-South/East of Douala. All 114 people on board were killed and the airplane was completely destroyed. The airplane crashed after loss of control by the crew as a result of spatial disorientation, after a long slow roll, during which no instrument scanning was done, and in the absence of external visual references in a dark night.

Mayday Over Wichita

Author : D. W. Carter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625845081
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Mayday Over Wichita written by D. W. Carter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known story of a major catastrophe in a 1960s African American community: A “commendable, if unsettling, account.” —Richard Kluger, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Simple Justice On the cold Saturday morning of January 16, 1965, a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker carrying thirty-one thousand gallons of jet fuel crashed into a congested African American neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas. When the fire and destruction finally subsided, forty-seven people—mostly African American children—were dead or injured, homes were completely destroyed and numerous families were splintered. As shocking as it may sound, the event was seemingly omitted from the historical record for nearly fifty years. Now, historian D. W. Carter examines the myths and realities of the crash while providing new insights about the horrific four-minute flight that forever changed the history of Kansas. Includes photographs

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS FATIGUE? The Crash of Federal Express Flight 1478

Author : Hank Williamson, Editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300275308
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS FATIGUE? The Crash of Federal Express Flight 1478 written by Hank Williamson, Editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 26, 2002, about 0537 eastern daylight time, Federal Express flight 1478, a Boeing 727-232F, on its way from Memphis International Airport to Tallahassee Regional airport, struck trees on short final approach and crashed short of runway 9 at the Tallahassee Regional Airport, Florida. The flight was operating as a scheduled cargo flight from Memphis, to Tallahassee. The captain, first officer, and flight engineer were seriously injured, and the airplane was destroyed by impact and resulting fire. Night visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight, which operated on an instrument flight rules flight plan. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the crew's failure to establish and maintain a proper glidepath during the night visual approach to landing. Contributing to the accident was a combination of the captain's and first officer's fatigue, the crew's failure to monitor the approach, and the first officer's color vision deficiency.

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS GHOSTS? The Crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401

Author : Pete Collins, Editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300363282
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS GHOSTS? The Crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 written by Pete Collins, Editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 29, 1972 an Eastern Air Lines' Lockheed L-1011, as Flight 401 on its way from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, to Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida, crashed at 2342 eastern standard time in the Everglades, approximately 18 miles west northwest of Miami International Airport. The aircraft was destroyed. There were 163 passengers and a crew of 13 aboard the aircraft, 99 people died in the crash. The flight was diverted because of problems with the nose landing gear The aircraft climbed to 2,000 feet while the crew attempted to correct the problem. Surviving passengers and crewmembers stated that the flight was routine and operated normally before impact with the ground. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident, was preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed.

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS CAPTAIN IN PANIC The Crash of Armavia Flight 967

Author : Hans Griffioen, editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300208317
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS CAPTAIN IN PANIC The Crash of Armavia Flight 967 written by Hans Griffioen, editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 2 May 2006 Armavia Flight RNV 967, an Airbus A320, was on its way from Zvartnots (Yerevan, Armenia) to Adler (Sochi, Russia). There were 113 occupants on board: 105 passengers (including 5 children and 1 baby), 2 pilots,1 aircraft engineer and 5 flight attendants. Upon approaching Sochi there was confusion in regard to the weather for the scheduled landing. Finally the captain decided to return to Zvartnots, a short while later he reconsidered his decision and started the approach to Sochi after all. Just before final landing air traffic control told the captain to abort the landing. At 22:13 the aircraft struck the water, it broke up on impact, killing all aboard. The investigation concluded that the crash of Armavia Flight 967 was a Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT), specifically water, while conducting a climbing manoeuvre, after an aborted approach, along with inadequate control inputs from the Captain to Sochi airport at night with weather conditions below landing minimums for runway 06.

Pennsylvania Disasters

Author : Karen Ivory
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493013211
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Pennsylvania Disasters written by Karen Ivory and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True accounts of major disasters in Pennsylvania history are retold in this engagingly written collection. From the Johnstown floods of 1889 to the heroic actions on United Flight 193 on 9/11, Pennsylvania has been home to some of the nation's most dramatic moments. Each story reveals not only the circumstances surrounding the disaster and the magnitude of the devastation but also the courage and ingenuity displayed by those who survived and the heroism of those who helped others, often risking their own lives in rescue efforts.

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS, MECHANICAL FAILURE OR SUICIDE? (3), The E,C.A.A. (Egypt) View of the Crash of EgyptAir Flight 990

Author : Igor Korovin, editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105465942
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS, MECHANICAL FAILURE OR SUICIDE? (3), The E,C.A.A. (Egypt) View of the Crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 written by Igor Korovin, editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 31, 1999, EgyptAir flight 990, a Boeing 767-366ER, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 60 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts. All 217 people on board were killed, and the airplane was destroyed. According to the Egyptian Investigation Team a mechanical defect is the most likely cause of the accident, there is no credible evidence to support a conclusion that the First Officer intentionally dove the airplane into the ocean in fact.

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS, GROSS NEGLIGENCE KILLS 151, The Crash of Union des Transports Aeriens de Guinee Flight GHI 141

Author : George Cramoisi, editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300054417
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS, GROSS NEGLIGENCE KILLS 151, The Crash of Union des Transports Aeriens de Guinee Flight GHI 141 written by George Cramoisi, editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 25 December 2003, Union des Transport A riens de Guin e Flight GIH 141, a Boeing 727-223, on a flight from Conakry (Guinea) to Kufra (Libya), Beirut (Lebanon) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates) stopped over at Cotonou, Republic of Benin. During takeoff the overloaded airplane, was not able to climb properly and struck an airport building on the extended runway centerline, and crashed onto the beach and ended up in the ocean, killing 151 of the 163 people on board. The cause of the accident was the difficulty for the flight crew to rotate with an overloaded airplane with an unknown center of gravity. This in combination with the facts that the operator of the airline lacked any competence regarding organization and regulatory documentation, which made it impossible to correctly load and check the loading of the airplane, and the inadequacy of the supervision exercised by the Guinean civil aviation authorities in the context of safety oversight.

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS, MISJUDGMENT IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS The Crash of American Airlines Flight 625

Author : Hans Griffioen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300113332
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS, MISJUDGMENT IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS The Crash of American Airlines Flight 625 written by Hans Griffioen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 27, 1976, American Airlines, Flight 625, a Boeing 727-95, operated as a scheduled passenger flight from Providence, Rhode Island, to Harry S Truman Airport, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, with a stop at John F. Kennedy -International Airport, New York. The flight departed JFK at 1200 with 88 persons, including 7 crewmembers, aboard. At about 1510, during landing at the Harry S Truman Airport, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, flight 625 overran the departure end of runway 9, struck the ILS antenna, crashed through a fence, and came to rest against a building located 1,040 feet beyond the end of the runway. The aircraft was destroyed, 35 passengers and 2 flight attendants were killed. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the captain's actions and his misjudgment in initiating a go-around maneuver with insufficient runway remaining after a long touchdown.

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS DEATH IN THE POTOMAC The Crash of Air Florida Flight 90

Author : George Cramoisi, Editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 130042771X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS DEATH IN THE POTOMAC The Crash of Air Florida Flight 90 written by George Cramoisi, Editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737-222, was a scheduled flight to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C. There were 74 passengers and 5 crewmembers on board. The flight was delayed about 1 hour 45 minutes due to a moderate to heavy snowfall. Shortly after takeoff the aircraft crashed at 1601 e.s.t. into the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River and plunged into the ice-covered river, 0.75 nmi from the departure end of runway 36. Four passengers and one crewmember survived the crash. Four persons in the vehicles on the bridge were killed; four were injured. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the flightcrew's failure to use engine anti-ice during ground operation and takeoff, and to take off with snow/ice on the airfoil surfaces of the aircraft. Contributing to the accident were the ground delay between de-icing and takeoff clearance.

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS EYE OF THE NEEDLE The Crash of British Airways Flight 38

Author : Hans Griffioen, editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300396822
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS EYE OF THE NEEDLE The Crash of British Airways Flight 38 written by Hans Griffioen, editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 28 November 2008, a Boeing 777-200ER, operated by British Airways as flight BA38, on its way from Beijing, China to London (Heathrow), suffered on approach to Heathrow Airport an in-flight engine rollback. At 720 feet agl, the right engine ceased responding to autothrottle commands for increased power and instead the power reduced to 1.03 Engine Pressure Ratio (EPR). Seven seconds later the left engine power reduced to 1.02 EPR. This reduction led to a loss of airspeed and the aircraft touching down some 330 m short of the paved surface of Runway 27L at London Heathrow. The investigation identified that the reduction in thrust was due to restricted fuel flow to both engines. It was determined that the restriction occurred most probably in the Fuel Oil Heat Exchangers. The investigation identified the forming of ice in the fuel system as probable cause. The aircraft was destroyed, but there were no casualties.