| Author | : Brenda Butler |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Unidentified flying objects |
| ISBN | : 9780586066782 |
The Bakers Creek Air Crash
| Author | : Robert S. Cutler |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2016-11-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1514489597 |
The unique feature of this book, and the tragic accident it documents, is not simply the number of deaths but, rather, the extraordinary loss that occurred to so many American families simultaneously and how important it is that people in Australia and America have ensured that this historic incident is long remembered.
QF32
| Author | : Richard de Crespigny |
| Publisher | : Macmillan Publishers Aus. |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 2012-08-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1743347898 |
QF32 is the award winning bestseller from Richard de Crespigny, author of the forthcoming Fly!: Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 On 4 November 2010, a flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife edge of being one of the world's worst air disasters. Shortly after leaving Changi Airport, an explosion shattered Engine 2 of Qantas flight QF32 - an Airbus A380, the largest and most advanced passenger plane ever built. Hundreds of pieces of shrapnel ripped through the wing and fuselage, creating chaos as vital flight systems and back-ups were destroyed or degraded. In other hands, the plane might have been lost with all 469 people on board, but a supremely experienced flight crew, led by Captain Richard de Crespigny, managed to land the crippled aircraft and safely disembark the passengers after hours of nerve-racking effort. Tracing Richard's life and career up until that fateful flight, QF32 shows exactly what goes into the making of a top-level airline pilot, and the extraordinary skills and training needed to keep us safe in the air. Fascinating in its detail and vividly compelling in its narrative, QF32 is the riveting, blow-by-blow story of just what happens when things go badly wrong in the air, told by the captain himself. Winner of ABIA Awards for Best General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2013 and Indie Awards' Best Non-fiction 2012 Shortlisted ABIA Awards' Book of the Year 2013
When I Fell From the Sky
| Author | : Juliane Koepcke |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2012-03-22 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1857889452 |
On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived. Juliane Koepcke, the seventeen-year-old child of famous German zoologists. She'd been thrown from the plane two miles above the forest canopy, but had sustained only a broken collarbone and a cut on her leg. With incredible courage, instinct and ingenuity, she survived three weeks in the "green hell" of the Amazon - using the skills she'd learned in assisting her parents on their research trips into the jungle - before coming across a loggers hut, and, with it, safety. Now she tells her fascinating story for the first time, and in doing so tells us about her 'Gerald Durrell' childhood - with a menagerie of wild, exotic and sometimes dangerous pets - about how she learned to survive at her parents ecological station deep in the rainforest and about her present-day commitment to this wildlife as a biologist and dedicated environmentalist.
The Crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 22
| Author | : Paul D. Houle |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2016-01-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 147666224X |
Against a backdrop of inadequate funding, misplaced priorities and a lack of manpower, American commercial aviation in the 1960s was in a perilous state. In July 1967, when a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 collided with a Cessna 310 over Hendersonville, North Carolina, killing 82 people, the industry was in crisis. Congress called hearings on aviation safety and government and union officials pressured President Lyndon Johnson to request increased funding for aviation safety. But the National Transportation Safety Board's probe into the crash was flawed from the start. The investigative team was made up of individuals whose companies had certain interests in the outcome. The lead investigator was the brother of the vice president of Piedmont Airlines. In an effort to shift blame from the government and Piedmont, critical conversations recorded on tape never made it into the NTSB's report. Maintenance and training records, as well as industry warnings of the 727's operational limitations, were also omitted. This book reveals the true story of the investigation: what was left out and why.
Slam ! Boom ! Crash !
| Author | : Wolf Larsen |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2005-09-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1453551840 |
SLAM! BOOM! CRASH! is one of the most unusual and exciting novels ever written! If you were to incorporate a thousand different styles of architecture in one building or a hundred different art movements in one painting or a million different styles of music in one wild symphony the results might resemble SLAM! BOOM! CRASH! Wolf Larsen began writing SLAM! BOOM! CRASH! while he was living in the city of Salvador in Brazil. SLAM! BOOM! CRASH! is a coming-of-age novel written to the beat of Afro-Brazilian drums thundering with the energy of apocalypse. SLAM! BOOM! CRASH! seethes with the black and white racial tensions that divide America. The main character, a young white man in high school in a big American city, becomes involved with a young black women his age which angers many black males wherever they go together. SLAM! BOOM! CRASH! reads like an active volcano that explodes and explodes with passion and lust and violence over and over again. The reader should be prepared for a wild literary adventure SLAM! BOOM! CRASH! departs from tradition to deliver exciting reading like the reader has never experienced. No one has ever written a book like SLAM! BOOM! CRASH!
Air Crash Investigations
| Author | : Allistair Fitzgerald |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0557981840 |
On 23 June 1985, Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747-237B was on its way from Montreal, Canada, to London when it was blown up while in Irish airspace, and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. 329 people perished. It was the largest mass murder in modern Canadian history. The explosion and downing of the carrier was related to the Narita Airport Bombing. Investigation and prosecution took 25 years. The suspects in the bombing were members of the Sikh separatist Babbar Khalsa. Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only person convicted, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The Great Crash, 1929
| Author | : John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1961 |
| Genre | : Depressions |
| ISBN | : |
John Kenneth Galbraith's classic study of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
