Aircraft Safety

Subtitle:
Accident Investigations, Analyses, and Applications
Author:
Shari Stamford Krause
Format:
Softcover

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Aircraft Safety

Short description

This comprehensive examination of aircraft accidents and incidents makes the technical understandable and the necessary obvious and actionable.

Long description

This worldwide bestseller utilizes case studies to examine and explain aircraft accidents and incidents. It covers five major problem causes: human factors, weather, mid-air collisions, mechanical failure, runway incursions. New to this edition are: chapters on Monitoring/Managing Cockpit Behaviour and Spatial Disorientation; 27 new case studies; 25 per cent new illustrations; and updated data and statistics throughout.

Product details

Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
9780071409742
Publication date:
July 2003
Length:
237mm
Width:
186mm
Thickness:
34mm
Weight:
785g
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages:
483
Illustrations:
Illustrated
Readership:
Tertiary education; Professional & scholarly
Illustrated:
Illustrated

Table of contents

  • Introduction PART ONE
  • Human Factors Chapter
  • Crew Resource Management Chapter
  • Pilot Judgment and Aeronautical Decision
  • Making Chapter
  • Distractions in the Cockpit Chapter
  • Cockpit Discipline Chapter
  • Case Studies PART TWO
  • Runway Incursions PART THREE
  • Meteorology and Atmospheric Phenomena Chapter
  • Air Masses and Fronts Chapter
  • Cloud Formation Chapter
  • Thunderstorms Chapter
  • Microbursts and Low
  • Level Windshear Chapter
  • Icing Conditions Chapter
  • Turbulence Chapter
  • Wake
  • Vortex Turbulence Chapter
  • Case Studies PART FOUR
  • Mid
  • Air Collision Avoidance Chapter
  • See
  • and
  • Avoid
  • The Myth Chapter
  • See
  • and
  • Avoid
  • The Reality Chapter
  • The Role of Air Traffic Control Chapter
  • Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems Chapter
  • Case Studies PART FIVE
  • Mechanical Difficulties and Maintenance Oversights

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