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Aviation
Disasters: Great for a brief, encyclopedic analysis of major crashes. This book is excellent for a brief summary of every major accident since the 50's. It reads like an encyclopedia rather than a novel. Some pictures are included. There is a fair amount of lingo specific to the industry, with occaisonal transciptions of cockpit dialogue and illustrations of flight paths. Emphasis is given to the facts surrounding and explanations for the crashes.
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Safety
is No Accident
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Aftermath This book is a compilation of the magazine's accident articles published during the last 30, or so, years. |
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Flying
Blind, Flying Safe The former Inspector General of the US Department of Transport tells you everything you need to know to travel safer by air. |
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The
Naked Pilot: The Human Factor in Aircraft Accidents You've gotta love this title. It's right up there with 'Set phasers on stun' (Another human factors gem). In one of the worst aviation disasters ever,
a DC-8 with a fire on board was able to land safely back at the airport;
however, no exit was opened for twenty-three minutes and 301 people inside
died. Why? Investigations into the causes of airplane accidents have for
decades focused on what happened and who did it--very rarely on why. It's
the question "why" that Beaty addresses here. Focusing on large commercial-aircraft
accidents, he looks at human error precipitated by individuals as well
as management and government. No other book on the subject speaks with
such clarity to both the expert and the layman. |
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Dragonfly:
NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir Bryan Burrough, coauthor of the bestselling Barbarians at the Gate, has a talent for reworking factual accounts so they read like first-rate thrillers. Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir is overwhelming in its scope and breadth of detail, culled from one-on-one interviews and transcripts of recorded conversations between the astronauts and cosmonauts on Mir and Russian Mission Control. Burrough delves deeply into the personal and professional lives of the 11 people who lived aboard Mir from 1995 to 1998. What we soon discover is simultaneously disheartening and fascinating: the men and women who would be astronauts must run a gauntlet of hazings, are judged professionally on their personal lives, and win flight assignments through serendipity as often as through hard work. NASA is controlled by cliques and cults of personality: "People don't speak out, because George makes short work of you if you do.... If you get on his bad side, you won't get a flight assignment...." There are "issues dealing with training and the selection of crews that you don't dare speak up about." The down-to-the-last-bolt descriptions of life aboard the station, from what the air smells like to an explanation of "penguin suits" to the distance between the dinner table and the original, now seldom-used toilet--2 feet--will thrill space enthusiasts. Space may not be "where no man has gone before" anymore, but it nevertheless provides endless dream fodder for those of us left behind on Earth. --Jhana Bach |
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The
Final Call
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Impact
Erebus
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By the author: I am an investigative reporter and the co-author of this book, which is based on research gathered by Riki Stevens during her 23-year career as a flight attendant for a major U.S. airline. Riki also served on several committees for her flight attendants' union and has interviewed many pilots, aviation experts, and government officials in preparing this book. We believe it is the most comprehensive and accurate summary of the health and safety risks today's commercial air passengers face when they fly. We have put a positive spin on our findings by making specific suggestions on what you, the passenger, can do to minimize your risk of discomfort, disease, injury, or death while aboard a commercial airliner. This advice is based on the most current data and clinical studies, provided to us by physicians, nutritionists, and aviation safety consultant |
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Aviation
Safety and Pilot Control: Understanding and Preventing Unfavorable Pilot-Vehicle
Interactions From The Publisher: Adverse aircraft-pilot coupling (APC) events include a broad set of undesirable and sometimes hazardous phenomena that originate in anomalous interactions between pilots and aircraft. As civil and military aircraft technologies advance, interactions between pilots and aircraft are becoming more complex. Recent accidents and other incidents have been attributed to adverse APC in military aircraft. In addition, APC has been implicated in some civilian incidents. This book evaluates the current state of knowledge about adverse APC and processes that may be used to eliminate it from military and commercial aircraft. It was written for technical, government, and administrative decisionmakers and their technical and administrative support staffs; key technical managers in the aircraft manufacturing and operational industries; stability and control engineers; aircraft flight control system designers; research specialists in flight control, flying qualities, and human factors; and technically knowledgeable lay readers. |
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Fit
to Fly The Author: Fit to Fly - Cognitive Training for Pilots - asks pilots to work hard to ensure their abilities are as good as they can be. Their passengers expect it - as do their families. It is an invitation to 'do the right thing'. The exercises, by the way, need no fancy technology. They are basically free, and can be done in 'down time' so as not to impose any fiscal burden on the employer. In the end, it is about individual self-regulation. Taking control of one's life and developing both the mental toughness needed to handle tight situations aloft, and the equally vital ability to maintain crew co-ordination and working group relationships while under extreme pressure. Cognitive fitness does that. It can be achieved through dedicated exercise. This book shows how. For sure it's provocative and controversial. But I'm told by people who have no reason to be nice to me that it is also a very good read. |
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Military
Aviation Disasters:
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Crash! **** I can't find it online yet **** |
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Fatal
civil aircraft accidents: their medical and pathological investigation |
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