Crash

By Rob Elder and Sarah Elder

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689107587
• ISBN13: 9780689107580
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Atheneum
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Flight 401: The Calamity

CRASH by Rob and Sarah Elder is a riveting true story of Eastern Airline's Flight 401 crash into the Florida Everglades on the night of December 29, 1972. The author uses vivid imagery within the book to describe the gruesome gore of the crash and the horror felt by each of the victims. Once you start this book, it is difficult to put down because you want to know what really happened. Usually, people don't stop reading halfway through a breathtaking fiction novel, and CRASH delivers the same aspects a fiction piece contains. The authors of this book used journalistic views upon the each of the characters, changing the point of view every once in a while for the reader to capture all the possible outcomes the victims had encountered. This is a difficult way of writing a nonfiction book because it takes a lot of time to put together all the pieces, and display them in a way that isn't going to bore the reader. Overall, CRASH lets you experience a past event that shouldn't be relived. With its great imagery and description, the authors make this book a virtual tour of the crash. You'll learn a lot from this book such as how important bravery and leadership are in a simple human's life. I recommend this book to anyone who's looking for a true ride.

The crash of the first widebody jet.

This is a good book and I am surprised the authors have not had more books after this one. On the dust cover, they compare this to Alive. Even though this book is every bit as interesting, I believe the frequency of jumbo jets crashing has made people immune to this type of story.The story is about an Eastern Airlines L-1011 crashing in the Everglades late in December, 1972. The pilots basically let the auto pilot fly the plane in the ground with the death toll at 103 persons. Several little problems resulted in a new jumbo jet being crashed. First two little light bulbs costing $12.00 were not functioning. The pilots concern over this resulted in them losing focus on landing the aircraft and concentrate on reinstalling the light fixture. The chief pilot had a brain tumor which may have impaired his vision. Another airliner problem at Miami caused the air traffic controllers to focus their attention elsewhere. What happened is that the plane flew itself into the ground.I have seen a movie on this book. An interesting aside is that purportly some of the L-1011's equipment was salvaged and used in other aircraft. This caused some hauntings on other EAL L-1011s. I don't know if this is true, but the authors do not refer to this in this book. This is a good read about the airline industry. I wouldn't read it on a plane though. The airline industry is indeed susceptable to human weakness, as this book points out.