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Author : Bruce Hales-Dutton
Publisher : Danann Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0993181244
"This Illustrated Hardback book tells the fascinating story of how commercial airliners were developed and the crashes that changed the face of aviation and made flying the safest form of travel in the modern age."--Back cover.
Author : George Cramoisi, editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781105705847
On April 15, 2002, Air China flight 129, a Boeing 767-200ER, operated by Air China, en route from Beijing, China to Busan, Korea, crashed on Mt. Dotdae, near Gimhae Airport, Busan. Of the 166 persons on board, 37 persons survived the crash, while 129 occupants were killed. The Korean Aviation Accident Investigation Board (KAAIB) determined that the probable cause of the crash was pilot error due to poor crew resource management and lost situational awareness during the circling approach of the runway. The Chinese investigation team pointed out that the Korean ATC was not fully licensed and mistakenly directed the airliner to descend to a wrong altitude and that the airport did not inform the crew of the weather conditions at the time. A contributing factor was that the airline made all announcements in Chinese and English, while most passengers were Korean.
Author : Allistair Fitzgerald
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557451791
On Sunday, March 27, 1977 KLM Flight 4805 and PANAM Flight 1736 both approached Las Palmas Airport in the Canary Islands, when a terrorist's bomb exploded on the airport. Both flights were diverted to the neighboring island of Tenerife. After Las Palmas Airport reopened first KLM Flight 4805 was cleared for takeoff, a few minutes later PANAM 1736 was cleared. Due to a number of misunderstandings both aircraft collided on the runway of Tenerife Airport during takeoff, killing 583 people.
Author : Igor Korovin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781257752072
On May 25, 1979, American Airlines Flight 191, a McDonnell-Douglas DC-10-10 aircraft, on its way from Chicago to Los Angeles, crashed just after take-off near Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, Illinois. During the take off the left engine and pylon assembly and about 3 ft of the leading edge of the left wing separated from the aircraft and fell to the runway. Flight 191 crashed killing two hundred and seventy one persons on board and two persons on the ground. The accident remains the deadliest airliner accident to occur on United States soil.
Author : Igor Korovin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557132164
On 14 September 2008 Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-505, operated by Aeroflot-Nord, a subsidiary of the Russian airline Aeroflot, crashed on approach to Bolshoye Savino Airport, Perm, Russia. All 82 passengers and 6 crew members were killed. The aircraft was completely destroyed. According to the final investigation report, the main reason of the crash was pilot error. Both pilots had lost spatial orientation due to new instruments they were not familiar with, lack of proper training, insufficient knowledge of English and fatigue from lack of adequate rest. Alcohol in the Captain's blood may also have contributed to the accident.
Author : George Cramoisi, editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781105639265
On December 20, 1995, American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757-223, was on a scheduled passenger flight from Miami, Florida, U.S.A., to Cali, Colombia. Close to its final destination the pilots erroneously cleared the approach waypoints from their navigation computer. When the controller asked the pilots to check back in over Tulua, north of Cali, it was no longer programmed into the computer. They were lost and the aircraft crashed into a mountain. Of the 163 people on board, 4 passengers survived miraculously the accident.
Author : Allistair Fitzgerald
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557981847
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.
Author : Hans Griffioen, editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781105675546
On 25 January 2010, at 00:41:30 UTC, Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 409, a Boeing 737-800, on its way from Beirut to Addis Abeba, crashed just after take-off from Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, into the Mediterranean Sea about 5 NM South West of Beirut International Airport. All 90 persons on board were killed in the accident. The investigation concluded that the probable causes of the accident were pilot errors due to loss of situational awareness. Ethiopian Airlines refutes this conclusion. Other factors that could have lead to probable causes are the increased workload and stress levels that have most likely led to the captain reaching a situation of loss of situational awareness similar to a subtle incapacitation and the F/O failure to recognize it or to intervene accordingly. Ethiopian Airlines refutes the investigation. According to the airline the final report was biased, lacking evidence, incomplete and did not present the full account of the accident.
Author : George Cramoisi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557250707
On August 24, 2001, Air Transat Flight 236, an Airbus 330, was on its way from Toronto, Canada to Lisbon, Portugal with 306 people on board. Above the Atlantic Ocean, the crew noticed a dangerous fuel imbalance. The crew changed the planned route for a landing at the Lajes Airport in the Azores. At 06:13 the right engine flamed out. At 06:26, the left engine also flamed out. However, after flying 100 miles without fuel the crew managed to land the aircraft at the Lajes Airport at 06:45. After the landing small fires started in the main-gear wheels, they were extinguished by the crash rescue response vehicles. Only 16 passengers and 2 cabin-crew members received injuries. The aircraft suffered damage to the fuselage and to the main landing gear. The investigation uncovered a large crack in the fuel line of the right engine, it was caused by mistakes during an engine change just before the start of the flight.
Author : Editor Hans Griffioen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781257835089
On August 12, 1985, a Japan Airlines B-747 aircraft lost, shortly after take-off, part of its tail and crashed in the mountains northwest of Tokyo. Of the 524 persons on board 520 were killed, 4 survived the accident. The accident was caused by a rupture of the aft pressure bulkhead of the aircraft, and the subsequent ruptures of a part of the fuselage tail, vertical fin and hydraulic flight control systems. The rupture happened as the result of an improper repair after an accident with the aircraft in Osaka, in June 1978.
Author : Dirk Jan Barreveld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1387561251
At 8:39 p.m. on July 16,1999 John F. Kennedy, son of former President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, departed from Essex County Airport (IATA: CDW), New Jersey. His destination was Martha's Vineyard Airport, just south of Cape Cod. There were three persons on board the Piper Saratoga: John F. Kennedy Jr, his wife Carolyn Bessette, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette. The plane never arrived in Martha's Vineyard. The plane wreck was discovered in the Atlantic Ocean two days later. All three inhabitants of the plane were dead. The cause of the crash was spatial disorientation
Author : Hans Griffioen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409283522
On 2 September 1998, Swissair Flight SR 111 departed New York, on a scheduled flight to Geneva, Switzerland, with 215 passengers and 14 crew members on board. About 53 minutes after departure, the flight crew smelled an abnormal odour in the cockpit. They decided to divert to the Halifax International Airport. They were unaware that a fire was spreading above the ceiling in the front area of the aircraft. They would never make it to Halifax, 20 minutes after the first detection of smoke in the cabin the aircraft crashed in the North Atlantic near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada. There were no survivors, 229 people died in the incident.
Author : George Cramoisi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557849505
On Tuesday 25 July 2000 Air France Flight AFR 4590, a Concorde registered F-BTSC, took off from Paris Charles de Gaulle, to undertake a charter flight to New York with nine crew members and one hundred passengers on board. During takeoff from runway 26 right at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport, a tyre was damaged. A major fire broke out. The aircraft was unable to gain height or speed and crashed onto a hotel, killing all 109 people on board and 4 on the ground. The crash would become the end of the Concorde era.
Author : Hank Williamson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781257505401
Lauda Air Flight NG 104, a Boeing 767-300 ER of Austrian nationality was on a scheduled passenger flight Hong Kong-Bangkok-Vienna, Austria. NG 104 departed Hong Kong Airport on May 26, 1991, and made an intermediate landing at Bangkok Airport. The flight departed Bangkok Airport at 1602 hours. The airplane disappeared from air traffic radar at 1617 hours, about 94 nautical miles northwest of Bangkok. The probable cause of this accident is attributed to an uncommanded in-flight deployment of the left engine thrust reverser. All 223 people on board died in the accident.
Author : Editor Igor Korovin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781105027574
On July 19, 1989, an United Airlines' DC-10-10, on its way from Denver to Chicago, experienced a catastrophic failure of the No. 2 tail-mounted engine during cruise flight. The airplane subsequently crashed during an attempted landing at Sioux Gateway Airport, Iowa. Of the 296 people on board 111 were killed.