Review: Great Details of Air Crashes You Never Read in the News
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
I really enjoyed this book because many of the NTSB accidents that are laid out in the book, I had heard of, but never really knew the whole story. I have great respect for the men and women of the NTSB who have to respond to the accidents and see sights I hope I'll never see. The book also goes into accidents in Europe, and different parts of the world. I was very interested in the detail of TWA flight 800 that blew up over Long Island, the author brings out information that I never heard. As a pilot myself, who lost a brother in an aircraft crash, I was very compelled to go to the scene of the accident. At the end of the book the author talks about this very thing.The police would not let me close to the plane, but then a worker from the NTSB came over, told the police it was alright to let me go with him in the woods to the crash site. I was always thankful to this man who was the head investigator of the crash scene. It gave me a quick understanding of what most likely might havehappened even before the official NTSB report was out. When reading the book I got the impression that politics and money often get in the way of safety. What else is new!! Now with what I just said and giving the book five stars, I must say that I got off to a bad start with the author in the forward section of the book when he seems to want to crucify us general aviation pilots out there. Like any group of people who share a common interest, you have the bad ones that make it hard on us. Most of the pilots I know who reside below 10,000 feet do their best to obey the rules, after all, the FAA will come down hard on us with fines, loss of license, etc., and most of us don't have a death wish. Yes there are cowboys and showoffs, but they usually don't stick around for long, if you know what I mean. Enough said, I just don't agree with Nicholas Faith about us GA pilots, but still think this book is great reading. Read it and I don't think you'll be disappointed.