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Brace for Impact
Brace for Impact: Air Crashes and Aviation Safety | Peter Pigott
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Why do planes disappear or fall out of the sky? Brace for Impact traces the evolution of accident investigation and explains why flying is the safest form of travel. The history of air accidents is a harrowing one. Yet today flying is the safest mode of transportation, thanks in no small part to the work of crash detectives. Whenever a plane falls from the sky, the investigators pick through the wreckage for the clues they need to decipher what happened to that flight. Before the invention of the black box and the evolution of forensic accident investigation, the causes often remained a mystery. Since the Wright brothers first took flight, aircraft design, pilot training, aircraft maintenance, and air traffic control have all evolved to current standards of safety. Because of lessons learned from tragedies such as what befell the Comets in the 1950s, the Douglas DC-10s in the 1970s, and ill-fated Air India, TWA, and Swissair flights, flight safety continues to improve. In many ways, the history of aviation is the history of air crash investigation.
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BRACE FOR IMPACT is my book of the month for August. It was one of 15 books read this month: 7 of my own and 8 from the library. One book was a reread and four were books I'd chosen as high-priority for this year. No books lower than 3⭐️.

Picture of Air Canada Flight 624 overrunning the runway at Halifax airport from Global News.

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LeahBergen Definitely NOT my next inflight read!! 😬 8y
rabbitprincess @LeahBergen I've found my anxiety about flying has actually dropped since learning about air accident investigation. That said, I agree, I probably wouldn't read this on the plane itself 😉 8y
LauraBrook Good point, @rabbitprincess , maybe I should read more about this so I don't have as many pinch attacks when I do fly! 8y
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LauraBrook That's panic not pinch. 🙄 8y
rabbitprincess @LauraBrook Autocorrect strikes again 😉 An air crash book I liked was Beyond the Black Box. 8y
LauraBrook Thanks, just added it to my TBR! 8y
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An excellent book detailing the history of aviation and air crash investigation. Highly recommended for a Canadian perspective. This would appeal to fans of the show "Mayday".

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A hair-raising tale.

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Pretty sure none of the current Transportation Safety Board members served in the First World War. 🤔 😜 #pickyeditorispicky