Brace for Impact: Air Crashes and Aviation Safety

by Peter Pigott

Why do planes disappear or fall out of the sky? Brace for Impact traces the evolution of accident investigation and explains why flying is the safest form of travel.

The history of air accidents is a harrowing one. Yet today flying is the safest mode of transportation, thanks in no small part to the work of crash detectives. Whenever a plane falls from the sky, the investigators pick through the wreckage for the clues they need...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459732529
• ISBN13: 9781459732520
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.9"