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Airframe
by Michael Crichton
Another blockbuster from the
writer who brought you Jurassic
Park and television's popular ER.
An entertaining novel which
will interest mechanically minded detectives, Airframe is a fictional exploration of an aircraft
incident investigation.
When the pilot on an
inbound twin jet requests 40
ambulances due to a "passenger
problem", a mystery is set up.
Casey Singleton is a vicepresident of the company which
manufactures the aircraft. Her
investigation into what happened on the fateful flight is
hampered by stalkers, journalists, union action, missing
equipment and the inability to
locate the flight crew for questioning.
Airframe delves into unapproved parts, nepotism, bureaucracy and tabloid treatment of
aviation disasters.
352 pages. Published by Century
Books, Random House UK Limited, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road,
London SWIV UK
Aviation safety
the human factor
by Robert A. Alkov
Written by an experienced military pilot and accident investigator, Aviation safety - the
human factor adds to the wide
collection of resources available
which discuss the role of human
factors in aircraft accidents and
incidents.
This text is designed for flight
by D Maurino, J. Reason, N.
Johnston and R. Lee
This book is written by an
impressive international group
of scholars and practitioners.
The authors argue that the
traditional approach to the
analysis of safety in high-technology systems, which tends to
focus only on the individual
operator, should be replaced by
an approach which looks at the
whole organisation.
The emphasis is on the need
to extend the scope of accident
analysis from the individuals at
the "sharp end" (pilots, air traffic controllers, maintenance
engineers) to the top level of
management and even to the air
transportation system as a
whole.
The theory behind the organisational framework is explained
clearly and then applied, through
the use of case studies, to well
known accidents, such as the
Air New Zealand DC-10 crash
on Mount Erebus and the Dryden crash in Canada.
169 pages. Aldershot, UK.
Videos
Evacuation
Black box
ACA England
by Nicholas Faith
Flyright Productions
This video set is useful for private
and commercial pilot training. It
is broken into four parts: preflight preparation and take-off;
cruise and en-route; approach
and landing; and your body in
flight. It highlights common accidents in each phase of flight,
hence the title chosen.
A booklet comes with the
videos, which explains the theory associated with the accident
scenarios. The videos use realistic scenarios of accidents with
different performance aircraft
in each case.
The videos are an American
production, but are relevant in
any country because the
emphasis is on why these accidents occurred and not on
operational procedures (for
example, airspace).
Available from Pilot Shops and
AirservicesAustralia Publications
Centre, ph. 1800 331 676 (free
call). $149.95.
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Reviews prepared by Kylie Degeling.
CASA training, and the department
of aviation studies at the University
of Western Sydney, Macarthur.