The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts Of In-flight Accidents
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (836 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0688158927 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Malcolm MacPherson is a seasoned novelist and journalist who lives with his family in Greensboro, North Carolina
Not as good as the idea behind the book Frankly, I was disappointed. The idea behind the book - to publish the content of the CVR tapes of major aircraft accidents - is a good one. However, this is a specialized topic, and MacPherson simply does not have the specialist knowledge to properly edit the recordings. As a result, there are errors. Some are. Five Stars Fast, Fair, As advertised!. "Disappointing" according to JNH. This is a book that covers the CVR recordings of many well known aviation accidents. However it should be pointed out that almost everything in this book can be found on the internet. Unless you just want these transcripts for some compelling reason you may find them at no cost on the NTSB web site or any numbe
Often it provides the only explanation of a crash -- inevitably, it provides a heart-breaking, second-by-second account of intense fear tempered by unyielding professionalism.This 1984 Quill title has been completely updated to include twenty-eight new incidents occurring between 1978 and 1996. Readers join desperate pilots in the cockpit as they fight gravity and time in a plane that's falling out of the sky.Anyone who watches the news knows about the "black box." Officially called the cockpit voice recorder, the black box (which is actually Day-glo orange) records the final moments of an
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