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Summary: Yet another gem from MacArthur Job
Review: This book had the hard task of living up to the examples set by Volumes 1 and 2, but seems to have come through that brilliantly.MacArthur Job has a writing style that can almost put you in the cockpit and guides you through the accident as it progresses. His analysis is also usually spot on.
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Summary: "Air Disaster Volume 3" -- Another First-Class Effort
Review: Volume Three of "Air Disaster" features 155 pages, with 13 different commercial aviation accidents examined within its eight total chapters. This book covers aircraft disasters spanning from 1988 to 1998.
This volume begins with the crash of a brand-new Air France Airbus A320 (registration number F-GFKC) on June 26, 1988, at a French airshow. Other accidents that are probed in-depth here include a Thai Airways A310 incident in late July of 1992; the March 22, 1992, crash of a Fokker F28 of U.S. Air at LaGuardia Airport in New York City; and the frightening adventure of United Airlines Flight 811 on February 24, 1989, near Honolulu, Hawaii, when the Boeing 747-100 suddenly had one of its cargo doors blow off while in flight.
In addition, this book examines the two Boeing 737 accidents (in 1991 and 1994) that had investigators stumped and scratching their heads for years. The two Boeing twin-jets suddenly dropped out of the sky while approaching their respective destinations (Colorado Springs and Pittsburgh), without a readily evident cause for either crash. It was finally discovered, after the 1994 disaster in Pittsburgh, that the rudder system on the 737 had a potentially-deadly design flaw, which most likely caused both of these 737s to suddenly turn sharply and dive into the ground.
Volume 3 in this series by air safety author Macarthur Job continues the rich and expertly-written tradition of the first two volumes. Definitely worth a look.
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For some reason, Volume 4 in the "Air Disaster" series is unavailable through Amazon.com (as of this writing). But if you can find it elsewhere, I'd also recommend picking up that volume as well.
A little data regarding Volume #4:
The 4th installment in Macarthur Job's "Air Disaster" series focuses attention on "The Propeller Era" of commercial aviation accidents.
While not quite as intricately detailed as Volumes 1 through 3 in this series of aviation books, Volume Four's 184 pages are still filled with many interesting-to-read accounts. There are 20 individual chapters here, covering a timespan of 1950 to 1971.
Prop plane accidents explored include two incidents on the very same day -- September 17, 1961 -- when a Northwest Airlines Lockheed L188 Electra went down in Chicago and a Transair Sweden DC-6 crashed in Northern Rhodesia.
Other air disasters that get a chapter in Volume 4 include the crash of an Eastern Airlines L188 Electra in Boston on October 4, 1960, a Northwest Orient Stratocruiser accident in Washington State on April 2, 1956, and another Stratocruiser accident suffered by Pan Am in October 1956.
Also included is a chapter covering the "Grand Canyon Collision" of June 30, 1956. This terrible accident took 128 lives as a TWA Super Constellation collided in mid-air with a United Airlines DC-7 above the Grand Canyon.
Featuring a wealth of vintage aircraft photographs from the pre-jet age of air travel, plus many excellent illustrations, charts, maps, and original artwork, Volume 4 of "Air Disaster", published in 2001, is yet another worthy addition to the library.
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