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The Black Box : All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts Of In-flight Accidents
The Black Box AllNew Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts Of Inflight Accidents
Author: Malcolm Macpherson
Readers join desperate pilots in the cockpit as they fight gravity and time in a plane that's falling out of the sky.Anyone who watches the news knows about the "black box." Officially called the cockpit voice recorder, the black box (which is actually Day-glo orange) records the final moments of any in-flight accident. Often it provides ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780688158927
ISBN-10: 0688158927
Publication Date: 8/5/1998
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
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A curious and interesting read for me as a civil aviation enthusiast. Each chapter is dedicated to a particular incident with a brief synopsis of the crash in question and then the cockpit voice recorder transcripts of the events leading up to the moment of impact.

No pictures, no fluff - as Joe Friday was fond of saying 'Just the facts..."


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