A former aircraft engineer exposes the dangerous breakdown in airline safety due to lapses in maintenance and quality control. This book chronicles maintenance-related accidents caused by individual, corporate, or governmental negligence and brings the industry's current state of affairs into sharp focus. The author, a former aviation engineer, ......

A fresh assessment of five of the most compelling unresolved aviation mysteries

Published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Britain's worst terrorist attack

On 4 November 2010, a flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife edge of being one of the world's worst air disasters. Shortly after leaving Changi Airport, an explosion shattered Engine 2 of Qantas flight QF32 – an Airbus A380, the largest and most advanced passenger plane ever built. Hundreds of pieces of shrapnel ripped through the ......

Each year dozens of military aircraft come to grief, ranging from fighters and bombers to trainers and transports. This work covers major military disasters worldwide and gives full details of the aircraft involved, its operator, route, location of crash, loss of life, and where known the reason for the crash.

On April 8, 1968, a BOAC Boeing 707 took off from Heathrow Airport. Number 2 engine on the port side caught fire as the aircraft left the ground. The pilot immediately began to bring the aircraft around to land it back at Heathrow. In the meantime, the offending engine fell off into a gravel pit. The aircraft was safely landed, but the fire ......

Here are 23 instances of aircraft crashes where the occupants survived. There are ditchings in the sea, close encounters with trees and forced landings on coral reefs and in the Arctic wastes. It is a great read.