Pilot Error: Anatomies of Aircraft Acidents - Hardcover

Editors Of Flying Magazine; Robert B. Parke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0442224516 ISBN 13: 9780442224516

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1977

Synopsis

The twenty-five accident reports in this book originally appeared in Flying Magazine as bimonthly column entitled Pilot Error. The purpose of the column was to allow pilots to learn from the mistakes and misfortunes of others ans to avoid repeating them. At the same time the reports were widely felt to offer some of the most gripping reading in the magazine. The title Pilot Error has led to misunderstandings. It is a ready-made phrase commonly used in accident reports to cover all possible contributing factors that in some way or other involve the acts or omissions of the pilot. It does not have precise meaning. In fact, much of what in retrospect appears as an error may at the time have seemed the best of several alternatives, and not every move that leads eventually to an accident was necessarily and obviously an error. Furthermore, the fatal outcome of these cases produces the impression that the errors of the pilots must have particularly grave or flagrant. This is not the case. In fact, what makes these reports especially chilling reading for pilots is the knowledge that they themselves have again and again made the same errors but have in one way or another escaped the ultimate retribution. It is not our purpose to say that this or that pilot acted well or badly: our purpose is to show the ways in which events unfold. again and again, in aviation accidents so that other pilots may recognize and avoid the pitfalls that have claimed so many lives in the past.

Edition details

• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0442224516
• ISBN 13: 9780442224516
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160