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Author | : Bill Adair |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-07-09 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1588344029 |
The immediate human toll of the 1994 Flight 427 disaster was staggering: all 132 people aboard died on a Pennsylvania hillside. The subsequent investigation was a maze of politics, bizarre theories, and shrouded answers. Bill Adair, an award-winning journalist, was granted special access to the five-year inquiry by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) while its investigators tried to determine if the world's most widely used commercial jet, the Boeing 737, was really safe. Their findings have had wide-ranging effects on the airline industry, pilots, and even passangers. Adair takes readers behind the scenes to show who makes decisions about airline safety—and why.
Author | : David A. Adler |
Publisher | : Puffin |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2004 |
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ISBN | : 9780439133845 |
Author | : David A. Adler |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780606312073 |
Author | : Gerry Byrne |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1475752377 |
Boeing's 737 is indisputably the most popular and arguably the safest commercial airliner in the world. But the plane had a lethal flaw, and only after several disastrous crashes and years of painstaking investigation was the mystery of its rudder failure solved. This book tells the story of how engineers and scientists finally uncovered the defect that had been engineered into the plane. One of its novel features is that it portrays the complex interaction of different experts and opposing interests in investigating and solving the mystery of this single crash.
Author | : Hank Williamson, editor |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2011-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1105131343 |
The Boeing 737 has a history of rudder system-related anomalies, including numerous instances of jamming. A number of accidents and incidents were the result of the airplanes' unexpected movement of their rudders. During the course of the four and a half year investigation of the crash of USAir Flight 427 near Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, killing 132 people, the NTSB discovered that the PCU's dual servo valve could jam as well as deflect the rudder in the opposite direction of the pilots' input, due to thermal shock, caused when cold PCUs are injected with hot hydraulic fluid. This finally solved the mystery of sudden jamming of the rudders of this aircraft.
Author | : Roger W. Cobb |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2004-05-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780815771975 |
Flying is an extremely safe way to travel. Fewer than 14,000 individuals perished in U.S. airline disasters during the twentieth century. In contrast, nearly three times as many people lose their lives in automobile accidents every year. Yet plane crashes have a tremendous impact on public perceptions of air safety in the United States. When a crash occurs domestically, media coverage is immediate and continuous. Government teams rush to investigate, elected officials offer condolences and promise to find the cause, and airlines and plane manufacturers seek to avoid responsibility. Regulations are frequently proposed in response to a particular incident, but meaningful change often does not occur. In The Plane Truth, Roger Cobb and David Primo examine the impact of high-visibility plane crashes on airline transportation policy. Regulation is disjointed and reactive, in part due to extensive media coverage of airline disasters. The authors describe the typical responses of various players—elected officials, investigative agencies, airlines, and the media. While all agree that safety is the primary concern in air travel, failure to agree on a definition of safety leads to policy conflicts. Looking at all airline crashes in the 1990s, the authors examine how particular features of an accident correspond to the level of media attention it receives, as well as how airline disasters affect subsequent actions by the National Transportation Safety Board, Federal Aviation Administration, and others. Three accidents are considered in detail: USAir flight 427 (September 1994), ValuJet flight 592 (May 1996), and TWA flight 800 (July 1996). The authors also discuss how the September 11 terrorist attacks turned attention away from safety and toward security. Cobb and Primo make several policy recommendations based on their findings. These include calling on lawmakers and regulators to avoid reactive regulation and instead to focus on systematic problems in a
Author | : Gerry Byrne |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002-07-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780387952567 |
This study of the Boeing 737 airliner focuses on US Airways Flight 427, which crashed in March 1994, near Pittsburgh, killing all 132 aboard. The author relates how that crash kicked off years of painstaking research by the NTSB, the FAA, and Boeing that finally uncovered a minor, yet lethal flaw that had been designed into the aircraft.
Author | : Gerry Byrne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
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ISBN | : 9781475752380 |
Author | : George Cramoisi, Editor |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2012-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1105232972 |
This amended report explains the accident involving United Airlines flight 585, a Boeing 737-200, on its way from Denver to Colorado Springs, which crashed on March 3, 1991 near Colorado Springs Municipal Airport. Only after the crash of USAir 427 in 1994 and a similar incident with Eastwind 517 in 1996 the NTSB was able to pinpoint the cause of this crash: jammed rudder. The Boeing 737 has a history of rudder system-related anomalies, this finally solved the mystery of sudden jamming of the rudders of this aircraft.
Author | : George Cramoisi, editor |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1105639266 |
On December 20, 1995, American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757-223, was on a scheduled passenger flight from Miami, Florida, U.S.A., to Cali, Colombia. Close to its final destination the pilots erroneously cleared the approach waypoints from their navigation computer. When the controller asked the pilots to check back in over Tulua, north of Cali, it was no longer programmed into the computer. They were lost and the aircraft crashed into a mountain. Of the 163 people on board, 4 passengers survived miraculously the accident.