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Flight 427: Anatomy of an Air Disaster

Flight 427: Anatomy of an Air Disaster Hardback - 2002

by Byrne, Gerry

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  • very good
  • Hardcover

This study of the Boeing 737 airliner focuses on US Airways Flight 427, which crashed in March 1994, near Pittsburgh, killing all 132 aboard. The author relates how that crash kicked off years of painstaking research by the NTSB, the FAA, and Boeing that finally uncovered a minor, yet lethal flaw that had been designed into the aircraft.

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  • Title Flight 427: Anatomy of an Air Disaster
  • Author Byrne, Gerry
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 290
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Copernicus Books, Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002-07-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR002526072
  • ISBN 9780387952567 / 038795256X
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.48 x 1.19 in (23.88 x 16.46 x 3.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1990's
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
  • Library of Congress subjects Aircraft accidents - Investigation - United, USAir Flight 427 Crash, Pa., 1994
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002022483
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.124

From the publisher

The main differentiating quality of this book is that it portrays the complex interaction of different experts and opposing interests in investigating and solving the mystery of this single crash, and the recurrent problem that plagued the Boeing 737, the world's most successful and safest airliner.

First line

What most people fondly suppose to be a smooth, broad, steady stream of moving air is, in fact, no such thing.