Name: Black Box
ISBN: 9780752261454

Nicholas Faith

Flying is a safe way to travel. Statistically, every car journey you make puts you at far higher risk. Yet every so often the news of an air crash shakes the world. This is an examination of the causes behind some of flying's tragic disasters.

The Further Investigations

Black Box

The smash-hit bestseller about the world's worst air crashes and the disaster detectives who pick through the wreckage to find out why they happened - now fully revised and updated, with 30% new material. From the early tragedies of the Comet and the DC10 to the modern-day horror of the Concorde catastrophe in Paris and the mysterious loss of an Air France Airbus over the Atlantic, Faith painstakingly recreates the accidents, explains what went wrong and discusses how they can be prevented from recurring. It's a gripping, fascinating and chilling book.

Black Box The Further Investigations