The Crash Detectives:Investigating the World’s Most Mysterious Air Disasters - Christine Negroni Audiobook

Written by Christine Negroni
Read by Christine Negroni
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: September 27, 2016
Duration: 07:21:51

“Negroni is a talented aviation journalist who clearly understands the critically important part the human factor plays in aviation safety.” —Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, pilot of US Airways 1549, the Miracle on the Hudson

One of The Wall Street Journal’s Books Every Geek Should Read This Fall
A fascinating exploration of how humans and machines fail—leading to air disasters from Amelia Earhart to MH370—and how the lessons learned from these accidents have made flying safer.

In The Crash Detectives, veteran aviation journalist and air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes us inside crash investigations from the early days of the jet age to the present, including the search for answers about what happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. As Negroni dissects what happened and why, she explores their common themes and, most important, what has been learned from them to make planes safer. Indeed, as Negroni shows, virtually every aspect of modern pilot training, airline operation, and airplane design has been shaped by lessons learned from disaster. Along the way, she also details some miraculous saves, when quick-thinking pilots averted catastrophe and kept hundreds of people alive.

Tying in aviation science, performance psychology, and extensive interviews with pilots, engineers, human factors specialists, crash survivors, and others involved in accidents all over the world, The Crash Detectives is an alternately terrifying and inspiring book that might just cure your fear of flying, and will definitely make you a more informed passenger.

Negroni’s reading is steady and emotionally controlled as she describes many equipment failures that brought about oxygen deficiency, cascading mechanical failures, and operator error. Negroni uses shifts in pitch and intonation when reading reports and letters about airplane crashes since the beginning of fixed-wing flight by the Wright Brothers. Listening to Negroni expound about airplane crashes and near crashes, you’ll think twice about booking your next flight even though Negroni reassures listeners that flying is much safer than driving. M.B.K. � AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine