Chapter 1  TOTAL LOSS OF POWER OVER WATER

The Amelia Earhart ‘Mystery’  (Howland Island, 1937)

80-Mile Atlantic Glide (Azores, 2001)

BA 747 Loses All Power  (Indian Ocean, 1982)

Ethiopian 767 Ditches  (Comoros, 1996)

U.S. Airways Flight 1549  (Hudson River, 2009)

 

Chapter 2   TOTAL LOSS OF POWER OVER LAND

 

Avianca Flight 52 (New York, 1990)

Conscientious Crew Forget Fuel  (Portland, 1978)

Gliding Experience Saves the Day  (Gimli Canada, 1983)

London in Danger?

 

Chapter 3   RUNWAY OVERRUNS

100-m.p.h. Qantas Overrun  (Bangkok, 1999)

Air France A-340 Gutted by Fire (Toronto, 2005)

 

Chapter 4   MIDAIR COLLISIONS & TCAS

DHL Cargo 757 & TU-154 Collide
(Lake Constance, July 2002)

Two JAL Aircraft in Near-Miss  (Japan, 2001)

 

Chapter 5  GROUND COLLISIONS

Two 747s Collide in Fog  (Tenerife, 1977)

Singapore Airlines on Disused Runway (Taipei, 2000)

SAS MD-87 hits straying Cessna in Fog (Milan, 2001)

Airliner Clips UK Freighter  (Paris CDG, 2000)

 

Chapter 6 NO CONTROLLABILITY

“Uncontrollable” JAL 747 (Japan Alps, 1985)

DC-10 Miracle Landing (Sioux City, 1989)

DHL Airbus Baghdad (November 2003)

DC-10 Cargo Door opens in Flight (Detroit, 1972)

Almost Full DC-10 Crashes near Paris (1974)

Textbook Speed Seals DC-10 Fate (Chicago, May 1979)

 

Chapter 7  FIRE—THE PRIMAL FEAR

Supersonic Concorde (Paris, 2000)

737 Pilots Shut Down Wrong Engine (UK, 1989)

Fire in Varig 707 Toilet (Paris, 1973)

737 Stops with Fire Upwind (Manchester UK, 1985)

Tristar Delays Evacuation (Riyadh, August 1980)

TWA-800—Center Fuel Tank Explodes (July, 1996)

Swissair-111 On-board Fire (JFK-Outbound, 1998)

HazMat ValuJet (Everglades, Florida 1996)

 

Chapter 8   PILOT SICK, SUICIDAL, QUIRKY

BEA Trident Captain Dies at Controls (London, 1972)

EgyptAir Flight 990 (JFK Outbound, 1999)

Hands-on Pilot Wags-Off Airbus Tail (JFK Outbound, 2001)

Pilot Asleep?

 

Chapter 9  "FLY BY WIRE"
—AIRCRAFT FLY THEMSELVES

New A320 Crashes at Air Show (Habsheim, June 1988)

Indian Airlines Airbus A320 (Bangalore, 1990)

 

Chapter 10 FATIGUE, CORROSION
& STRUCTURAL FAILURE

De Havilland Comets (1954)

Section of Fuselage Blown Off Aloha 737 (Hawaii, 1988)

Business Passengers ejected from 747 (Honolulu, 1989)

747-China Airlines/El Al (1991/1992)

 

Chapter 11  INVISIBLE DANGERS

Sightseeing BOAC 707 Lost on Clear Day (Mt. Fuji, 1966)

UA 747-100 Fl.826 Drops 1,000 ft (Off Japan, 1997)

Microbursts

 

Chapter 12 CONTROLLED FLIGHT INTO TERRAIN (CFIT)

Pre-Programmed to Hit Mt. Erebus (Antarctica, 1979)

Thai Airways A310’s 3rd Attempt (Surat Thani, 1999)

757 Blindfolded by Forgotten Masking Tape (Lima, 1996)

Failed Indicator Bulb (Everglades, December 29, 1972)

Air Inter Airbus A320  (Sainte Odile, 1992)

 

Chapter 13 MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS

Using Engines to Clear Early Morning Fog (Zurich 1963)

Kid at Controls of Aeroflot Airbus 310 (Russia, 1994)

“Red Baron Fighter Ace (1918)

Helios 737 Fails to Pressurize (Greece, 2005)

Rogue Air Traffic Controller Deletes Data (JFK)

Faked Fuel Emergency (Air Rum, Lima, 2005)

 

Chapter 14 MILITARY PARANOIA & GAFFES

KAL902 (Kola, Russia, April 1978)

KAL007 Sakhalin Island, Russia  (January 1983)

USS Vincennes downs Iranian airliner (July, 1988)

 

Chapter 15  HIJACKS—AIRLINERS BECOME FLYING BOMBS

Failed Precursor to ‘9/11’

Nine-Eleven—World Trade Center (September 11, 2001)

 

Chapter 16 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

INDEX