Aircraft Safety: Accident Investigations, Analyses, & Applications, Second Edition

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McGraw Hill Professional, Aug 5, 2003 - Technology & Engineering - 483 pages

* This worldwide bestseller utilizes case studies to examine and explain aircraft accidents and incidents


* Covers five major problem causes: human factors, weather, mid-air collisions, mechanical failure, runway incursions


* NEW TO THIS EDITION: Chapters on Monitoring/Managing Cockpit Behavior and Spatial Disorientation; 27 new case studies; 25% new illustrations


* Updated data and statistics throughout

 

Contents

PART I Human Factors
1
PART II Runway Incursions
141
PART III Weather
211
PART IV MidAir Collisions
343
PART V Mechanical and Maintenance
397
Index
465
About the Author
484
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Shari Stamford Krause, Ph.D., is an aviation safety research consultant. Her clients have included Boeing Commercial Airplane Company and ABC News. She has taught aviation courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and aviation safety at Auburn University. Dr. Krause is Chair of the Aircraft Operations Technical Committee, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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