Air Disaster: The Propeller Era

Air Disaster: The Propeller Era

From the earliest days of manned flight, one issue above all others has preoccupied pilots and passengers – how do we avoid crashing?<br /><br />It was a time of impossible glamour – for the first time, ordinary people could fly across the oceans and continents to see the rest of the world.<br /><br />But the story of the infancy of the big airliners is as much a story of tragedy and disaster as it is of triumph and romance.<br />Design flaws, pilot error, a lack of understanding of fatigue… these and many other factors contributed to a litany of catastrophe.<br /><br />Welsh rugby fans, flying back from a win against Ireland… a fuel-starved aeroplane plunging into Manchester’s streets… a chartered aircraft carrying excited troops home for Christmas… a young mother decapitated as she holds her toddler son on her lap<br /><br />In AIR DISASTER: THE PROPELLER ERA, the award-winning Macarthur Job – one of the world’s foremost aviation writers, and himself a pilot – goes back to the early days of international air travel, and looks at the root causes of some of the worst disasters of that period.<br /><br />Other Books in the series:<br />Air Disaster 2: The Jet Age <br />Air Disaster 3: Terror In The Sky