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TRACON
Two jetliners. A computer gone awry. Fasten your seat belt for a riveting ride. In this authentic, revealing portrait of the unseen world of air traffic control, Paul McElroy takes you behind the scenes at the legendary O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and on a terrifying journey aboard two jetliners that collide when a computer malfunctions.
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Radar Contact Lost Royce Lemmington, a greedy and ruthless corporate giant, throws the lovely Caribbean island of San Miguel into turmoil. Stewart Pryce, an Air Traffic Controller with a troubled past, is drawn into the conflict by the crash of a jetliner on the island a crash blamed on a fellow controller. Together with Yasmin Esteban, a quick-witted local reporter, Pryce uncovers the terrible fate Lemmington has planed for the island a discovery that places them both in Lemmington’s deadly sights.
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Blackout
The master of the airplane thriller and bestselling author of Pandora's Clock is back in his most harrowing adventure ever.
As his new thriller Blackout begins, a Boeing 747-400 rises through a beautiful Hong Kong sunset on its way to Los Angeles. But within minutes, the plane is rocked by an explosion outside the cockpit that leaves one pilot dead and another blinded. The huge jet shudders through its descent while hundreds of passengers hold on for their lives. |
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Final Approaach
SABOTAGE....ACCIDENT....OR MURDER BY OMISSION? The airline told passengers flying to Kansas City the skies were safe. They lied. On a rain-slashed night, Flight 255 crashes at Kansas City Airport -- triggering one of the most horrifying aviation disasters of the decade. Put simply, it never should have happened. Safety Board investigator Joe Wallingford races to find out why it did. |
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Airframe by Michael Crichton
How did Michael Crichton know--before ValuJet, before TWA Flight 800--that airline safety would be a hot topic at the end of 1996? But there's more than an amazing instinct for popular taste at work in his latest thriller--destined to be read by hundreds of thousands of those very same airplane passengers it was designed to scare the seatbelts off. Enroute from Hong Kong to Denver, a brand new plane pitches and dives like a porpoise before crashing. The airline's officer in charge of quality assurance--a sharp-eyed, hard-nosed woman named Casey Singleton--has to find out why, before more passengers and the airline's future go into a tailspin. As always in Crichton's expert hands, readers learn a lot about science while lapping up their thrills |
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"Silent Skies-- The Air Traffic Controllers'
Strike"
The fascinating story of power and the abuses of power that led to the demise of a major federal union and the firing of over 11,000 federal employees is chronicled here. The Professional Air Traffic Controller's Organization(PATCO) misjudged the political sentiment of the nation, the willingness of the Reagan Administration to implement its social and economic agenda, and the ability of the union to achieve its goals through work stoppages.
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Berlin in the Balance, 1945-1949 : The Blockade,
the Airlift, the First Major Battle of the Cold War
"Parrish vividly describes the beginnings of the Berlin airlift when even many of the U.S. Air Force generals were not convinced that it could be done. Here the book reads like a thriller as he details the incredible skills and courage of the pilots and the equally incredible organization and ground support required to make it work....Parrish writes with authority and well-researched knowledge. He covers the many facets of national and international politics and global intrigue of one of the most difficult periods ever to have faced this country. At that time our leaders were given little credit for their often visionary decisions while coping with the enormous challenges facing them. Anyone wishing to understand the forces that continue to shape our destiny would benefit from reading Berlin in the Balance, 1945-1949." |
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City Under Siege: The Berlin Blockade and
Airlift, 1948-1949
At the close of World War II, the Soviet Union controlled all of eastern Germany except the Allied sectors of Berlin. In June 1948, Soviet authorities halted all rail traffic between the city and the outside world, effectively dooming the inhabitants of the Western sectors to starvation. American and British air forces immediately began a massive supply airlift. Flying 276,926 dangerous missions and bringing in 2.3 million tons of food and coal, the Berlin Airlift cost the lives of 75 U.S.and British airmen but saved the besieged enclave. Michael Haydock tells the human story of a spectacular aviation and logistical accomplishment that has had lasting geopolitical significance. |
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Berlin Airlift
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Flight to the Future : Human Factors in Air
Traffic Control
A panel report commissioned by the Federal
Aviation Administration providing recommendations
and analyses of the human factors characteristic
of the current air traffic control system.
The volume represents the first phase of
the project concentrating on the current
system and its development, describing baseline
operations, tasks in air traffic control,
assessment and training, airway facilities,
and automation issues related to cognitive
tasks, workload, communications, systems
management, research strategies, and system
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The Future of Air Traffic Control : Human
Operators and Automation
Following its 1997 on air traffic automation,
the Panel on Human Factors in Air Traffic
Control Automation focuses here on the interaction
between air traffic controllers and pilots
in the context of a growing network of automated
function in the air system. It recommends
developing human-centered automation and
addresses key areas such as matching levels
of automation to levels of risk, procedures
for recovering from emergencies, and free
flight versus ground-based authority. Includes
eight color plates. Book News, Inc.®, Portland,
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Commercial Aviation Safety
A text/reference providing analysis of aviation
safety policies and programs as they have
developed since the Airline Deregulation
Act of 1978. Covers structural and operational
changes, safety, data measurement and analysis
techniques, accident rates, accident investigation
methods, recent aircraft and traffic control
technologies. Includes review questions.
Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland,
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Black Box : The Air-Crash Detectives-Why
Air Safety Is No Accident
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The Black Box : All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder
Accounts of In-Flight Accidents
Without any doubt, this is the last book
to take with you on holiday, especially if
you are flying. I made the mistake of reading
my copy on a trip to the Guggenheim Museum
in Bilbao, a titanium-clad space-ship that
seems to have crash-landed out of the sun,
and on the return flight suddenly heard myself
asking the stewardess where the escape chutes
were stored. |
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Fatal Words : Communication Clashes and Aircraft
Crashes
Examines how ambiguities in language and
other causes of miscommunication between
pilots and air traffic controllers have led
to dozens of aircraft disasters, and recommends
immediate, short-term, and long-term solutions
to preventing them. Indexed by problematic
phrase as well as subject. Annotation copyright
Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. |
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Air Disaster, Volume 3
Continues the now well known
theme of Volumes
1 and 2 of this series, examining
the way
hitherto unsuspected hazards
in the worlds
airways system have been revealed
through
occasional tragic, but salutary
experiences.
This volume covers a further
number of such
accidents, all of them occurring
since the
late eighties. |
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Air Accident Investigation : How Science
Is Making Flying Safer
From the earliest days of civil aviation
to incidents of the jet age (such as TWO
Flight 800 depicted on the cover), this book
examines the different factors that cause
aviation accidents and describes some notable
incidents that still puzzle investigators.
Explained is the painstaking work involved
in reconstructing the sequence of events
that bring about disaster, and what sorts
of clues shed light on those events. The
present state of the rapidly changing aviation
industry is discussed, as are the challenges
that lie ahead. Fully illustrated with photographs
and line drawings.
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Aftermath
by Editors of Flying Magazine
Drawn from one of FLYING magazine's
most
popular features of the past
30 years, AFTERMATH
brings you the riveting stories
of real aviation
accidents, examining what happened
and what
lessons can be learned. This
dramatic, true-life
account of terror in the skies
is sure to
entertain, frighten, and inform--and
most
certainly save lives. |
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Aircraft Accident Analysis: Final Reports
Covering commercial, general,
and military
aviation in the United States,
this work
surveys 18 specific aircraft
accidents, summarizing
the investigation and findings
of the various
investigative bodies charged
with discovering
what went wrong. The majority
of the chapters
discuss major carrier accidents
and provide
information on flight background,
investigations
and findings, National Transportation
Safety
Board recommendations, and subsequent
industry
action.Book News, Inc.®, Portland,
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Military Aviation Disasters : Significant
Losses Since 1908
Every year, a number of military
aircraft
ranging from single-seat fighters
to fully
laden cargo planes are lost in
accidents.
Because these disasters often
occur in remote
corners of the world and rarely
involve members
of the general public, they seldom
attract
the sort of media attention given
to those
disasters which involve civil
aircraft.
In this, the first volume to
systematically
document and describe military
aviation disasters,
author David Gero has assembled
a century
of mishaps, beginning with the
loss of a
Wright flyer that was being demonstrated
for the U.S. Army in 1908. In
addition to
the aircraft types and serial
numbers, and
times, places, and causes, there
are copies
of accident reports and previously
unpublished
photographs of crash sites. Also
includes
combat losses involving transport
aircraft
and gliders.
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The Air Controllers' Controversy : Lessons
from the Patco Strike
PATCO strikers kept their integrity, even
at enormous cost.
Unable to get Congress to deal,
PATCO took
a calculated risk, and was blindsided
by
a new and reckless Reagan Administration.
Its actions sought system upgrades
still
not achieved today, and the re-unionization
of the replacement workers vindicates
PATCO's
insistence that the FAA is a
very poor administrative
body.NATCA continues PATCO's
struggle, and
thereby honors PATCO's memory
(as does the
steady recall of PATCO strikers.
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Grounded : Reagan and the Patco Crash (Garland
Studies in the History of American Labor)
This book analyses the rhetorical background
and strategies of the Professional Air Traffic
Controllers Organization (PATCO) and those
of Ronald Reagan in reference to the 1981
strike. Was firing 11,000 federal employees
the only option, or the best option available?
The work examines the applicable federal
statute, which provided and encouraged more
leeway than the administration exercised; the stormy relations between the controllers and the Federal Aviation Administration; and the development of the rhetorical persona of Ronald Reagan, a persona favoring epideictic
over deliberative rhetoric.
(Ph.D. dissertation,University of Pittsburgh,
1993; revised with new preface, bibliography,
and index) |
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Federal Government As Employer : The Federal
Labor Relations Authority and the Patco Challenge
(Labor Relations and Public Policy Series,
No 32) |

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