The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters

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		The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters
		The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters

“Negroni is a talented aviation journalist who clearly understands the critically important part the human factor plays in aviation safety.” —Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, pilot of US Airways 1549, the Miracle on the Hudson

One of The Wall Street Journal’s 3 Books Every Geek Should Read This Fall

A fascinating exploration of how humans and machines fail—leading to air disasters from Amelia Earhart to MH370—and how the lessons learned from these accidents have made flying safer.
 
In The Crash Detectives, veteran aviation journalist and air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes us inside crash investigations from the early days of the jet age to the present, including the search for answers about what happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. As Negroni dissects what happened and why, she explores their common themes and, most important, what has been learned from them to make planes safer. Indeed, as Negroni shows, virtually every aspect of modern pilot training, airline operation, and airplane design has been shaped by lessons learned from disaster. Along the way, she also details some miraculous saves, when quick-thinking pilots averted catastrophe and kept hundreds of people alive.
 
Tying in aviation science, performance psychology, and extensive interviews with pilots, engineers, human factors specialists, crash survivors, and others involved in accidents all over the world, The Crash Detectives is an alternately terrifying and inspiring book that might just cure your fear of flying, and will definitely make you a more informed passenger.

“Christine Negroni combines her investigative reporting skills with an understanding of the complexities of air accident investigations to bring to life some of history’s most intriguing and heartbreaking cases.” —Bob Woodruff, ABC News 


From the Trade Paperback edition.

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After reading a rave review in the Wall Street Journal, I decided to purchase the Kindle version. I have to say that I was disappointed with the book. The breezy, and in some areas sarcastic, tone, was a little off-putting. Given the author's background, I expected a more rigorous and neutral treatment of air crashes. I didn't see that here. The author's theory on the fate of MH-370 is interesting and may well prove correct. But, frankly, I saw no reason to prefer it over other plausible theories I've seen. Finally, I have to mention a few of those niggling little errors that jar the reader, which indicate the book needed stronger editing, fact checking, and proofreading. Amelia Earhart's crossing was west-to-east, not east-to-west. B-16 bombers were never deployed to Clark Field in the Philippines; in fact, the bomber never made it out of development. And Oliver North and Robert McFarlane didn't work for the National Security Agency. North worked on the staff of the National Security Council. McFarlane was the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (aka National Security Advisor).

While I enjoyed reading this book, I wish it would have provided more details regarding the incidents. Perhaps the author intended the book to be more of a review of various incidents, which it does well. However, the word Investigating in the title is misleading. This book provides very little summary of actual investigations. This book is a good overview of air incidents, but does not provide a detailed history of their investigations.

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