Beyond the black box the forensics of airplane crashes
"The black box is orange - and there are actually two of them. They house the cockpit recorder and the flight data recorder, instruments vital airplane crash analyses." "But accident investigators cannot rely on the black boxes alone. Beginning with the 1931 Fokker F-10A crash that ki...
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press
2008
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Table of Contents:
- The crash investigation process
- How planes (often) crash
- In-flight breakup
- Pressure, explosive decompression, and burst balloons
- Jet propulsion, burst engines, and reliability
- Metal fatigue : bending 777's and paper clips
- Combustion : fire and explosion
- Crash testing
- Human tolerances to G loads and crash forces.