Product Description

A new selection of air disasters transcribed from the cockpit voice recorder retrieved from the plane's wreckage. MacPherson documents each disaster, giving additional information surrounding the events, including the weather conditions and the details of the key individuals involved.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #429443 in Books
• Published on: 1998-07-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 204 pages

Review
'Once the book has caught your attention, it is hard to throw off its spell.' The New York Times Book Review

Customer Reviews

Fascinating and powerful accounts
This collection of Voice Recorder transcripts is an excellent production that puts you right in the pilots seat. Some of the extracts are from the widely reported big jet disasters such as United's DC-10 at Sioux City and JAL's 747 mountain crash, but give a higher degree of immediacy than you would expect. The less well known extracts are even more powerful, as you read each line not sure of what is coming next - in this respect much like the crew and passengers. This book should not frighten - as in most cases the pilots did a thoroughly professional job to try and save their aircraft, even if the odds were tragically stacked against them. Recommended, along with Mac Job's Air Disaster series.

A Great Book for any Aviation Enthusiast
I recieved this book today and i am amazed with the amount of detail and information the book contains.
Its very interesting to find out why these planes crash, and although is dramatic, does not excite and dramatise the crash.

This is a book for anyone who likes aviation or is interested as to why these machines which fly millions of people every year around the world crash.

A change from the usual over dramatised disaster books
This is a captivating book. If you want pictures and eye witness accounts you won't enjoy it but if you are more interested in why planes crash then it is great. There is no glorification or dramatics just the last conversations of the crew,who mostly have no idea what is about to happen. It is an interesting book but i would recommend digesting it in small parts, it is also a very disturbing read.