Air Disasters: Dramatic black box flight recordings
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Compelling and dramatic insights into crucial moments inside the cockpit.
Discover the most sensational air disasters of recent years. Transcripts of actual black box recordings of conversations between captains, their crew, and air traffic control on the ground reveal the final moments during which life-and-death decisions were made.
In some cases, disaster is averted; in others, the results are fatal. Every one of these real-life stories contains heroism and terror, and shows the sheer professionalism of those involved when under extreme pressure. They enable the reader to get right inside the cockpit and relive what happened, minute-by-minute, second-by-second.
- Includes Air France Flight 4590, the famous Concorde disaster in July 2000
Malcolm MacPherson
Malcolm MacPherson is an American author who has published various works of non-fiction, as well as novels with Random House. He is also prolific as a magazine and newspaper journalist, having been published in, amongst others, ‘Newsweek’, ‘New York’ magazine and the ‘International Herald Tribune’.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lots of CVR transcripts which pretty much blend into one after a while, so I don't recommend reading more than a couple at a time. Not a bad book, just fairly dull.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If you like reading the last recordings of doomed aircraft (and it makes for a fascinating read) then this is worthwhile. In some cases tragedy is averted, in others it is not. Some are famous, some hardly known. Each is shown as a transcript and details of what happened according to investigations afterwards is included.