Why?: Thinking About Plane Crashes

by Peter Garrison

Selected accounts from Flying Magazine's long-running accident-analysis column, Aftermath.

157 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 17, 2020

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Reviews

[Majel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good read. Lots of good analysis and lessons learned. I haven't read all of these Aftermaths before, so pretty much all of them were new to me. My one qualm with the collection is that he included like, 2 or 3 larger, higher profile commercial crashes that have been kind of extensively covered elsewhere, like the jackscrew on Alaska 261. The lessons a GA pilot can learn from these are minimal and the space could have been better served covering a more likely GA scenario. The pieces I appreciate most is GA pilot mistakes during emergency, pilot decision making, those kinds of things.

[David Provan · Rating 3 out of 5]

OK BUT TOO SHORT

The crash analyses are thoughtful and, in some cases, more detailed than others I've read. But I expected more for the money, given that they are cut and pasted magazine articles.

[Ke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Collection of aviation accident analysis: great to have