Air Disaster

This text examines the harsh lessons of air tragedies, detailing some of the operational experiences which, for all their grim consequences, helped to evolve a global mass-transport system to a level of safety and reliability beyond anything the world had ever seen. Beginning with the saga of the ill-fated Comet, the world's first jetliner, specialist air safety officer, Macarthur Job, brings to life the story behind some of the jet-age accidents that followed, each of them adding to the industry's sum total of knowledge and experience to make operations safer in the future.;Based on official accident-investigation reports, and supplemented by extensive additional research, it opens up the intricacies of high-altitude, high-speed jetliner operations.

• Ean/ISBN: 9781875671113
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