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MAYDAY BY MARION F. STURKEY

MAYDAY examine airline accidents caused by mechanical failure fire, mid-air collision, terrorist hijacking, and human error. Also, accidents caused by sabotage, suicide, fuel exhaustion, mistaken identity shoot-downs, spatial disorientation, hazardous weather, controlled flight into terrain, and other aerial perils.

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13-04017MAYDAY BOOK$16.95

AIRCRAFT SAFETY: ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS, ANALYSIS, & APPLICATIONS

Close examinations of more than 40 airline and general aviation accidents provide life-saving lessons for pilots and other professionals concerned with aircraft safety.

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13-29941AIRCRAFT SAFETY 2ND EDITION$32.95

MID-AIR COLLISIONS
BY MARION F. STURKEY

MID-AIR offers readers brutally authentic accounts of collisions involving Military aircraft and Civil transports. Each chapter is a window through which readers re-live the aerial crisis, the voice transcript (where available), the collision, the investigation, and the Probable Cause.

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13-05663MID-AIR COLLISONS BOOK$17.95

ASA AIR CRASHES (BY RICHARD COLLINS)

What went wrong, why, and what can be done about it - this book examines factors that have led to past accidents so readers can avoid repeating them. Hard cover, 254 pages, indexed.

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MUSIC'S BROKEN WINGS

Fifty Years of Aviation Accidents in the Music Industry - Covering the 50 year period between 1935 and 1985, this 540- page book analyzes 34 aviation accidents, which affected the music in our world in some way. From the most famous American artists, such as Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline, Rick Nelson and Lynyrd Skynyrd, to the lesser-known international performers Carlos Gardel, Anna Jantar, Tamara and Kyu Sakamoto, this text covers many types of music and the talents who were affected by adverse aviation events.

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13-02711MUSICS BROKEN WINGS- 50 YRS$34.95

PAN, PAN, PAN!
A SURVIVOR'S STORY

Pan, Pan, Pan is the story of how I dreamed of being a pilot and never gave up on that dream. It is also an account of having crashed into the ocean twice and living to tell about it. Pan, Pan, Pan shares my love of flying and my desire to do all that I can to help keep the airways safe.

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13-06104PAN,PAN,PAN, A SURVIVORS STORY$29.95

EQUAL TIME POINT BOOK

These are the words that haunt Captain Charlie Wells when he realizes that his jumbo jet has a problem over the Atlantic. None of the passengers or crew could know that a disgruntled airline mechanic has sentenced them to a night of terror. As the flight approaches the Equal Time Point and is the most distant from land, Captain Wells and his crew of pilots and flight attendants struggle to avoid making history.

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13-07019EQUAL TIME POINT BY H. JONES$22.95

THE CRASH OF TWA FLIGHT 260

This moment by moment account of a major airplane crash on a beautiful and treacherous mountainside puts the reader at the pilot’s side, describing the flight, its catastrophic ending, and the aftermath.

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13-09395THE CRASH OF TWA FLIGHT 260$23.95

BENT PROPS AND BLOW POTS: A PIONEER REMEMBERS NORTHERN BUSH FLYING

Terpening's book is full of remarkable bush-flying stories. And there are vivid evocations of the sheer joy of flying over the Arctic's raw beauty.

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13-09360BENT PROPS AND BLOW POTS$26.95

HEARTS OF COURAGE: FAITH AND RESCUE IN WARTIME ALASKA

No greater saga of the Northland was ever recounted than the experiences of the survivors of the Gillam plane crash.

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13-09365HEARTS OF COURAGE$19.00

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION

Covers all aspects of aircraft accident investigations. Includes new information on the investigation of in-flight fires, electrical circuitry, and composite structure failure. Explains the investigation procedures required by the NTSB and ICAO. Covers basic investigation techniques, aeronautical and structural knowledge useful to investigators. Also covers analysis, investigation management and report writing. Fully indexed.

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13-09846AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT INVESTIGATE$69.95

''THE PILOT'S BURDEN'' (BOOK)

This book looks critically at a number of factors, including aircraft and cockpit design, the constant growth of aviation regulations, the pressures on the air traffic control systems and computers in planes, to explain the growing demands on pilots.

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17-00009THE PILOTS BURDEN: FLIGHT SAFETY AND THE ROOTS OF PILOT ERROR$16.75