Brace for Impact

Brace for Impact
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Examines the history of both airplane crashes and airplane safety The book lays out which factors lead to crashes, both human and mechanical, and what the average person can do to increase their safety and chance of survival while flying Author has written a number of aviation books, most recently the history of Air Canada Analyzes real-world examples to determine what went wrong Discusses how terrorism has affected safety while travelling by airplane

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Peter Pigott. Brace for Impact

Cover

Also by Peter Pigott

Dedication

Table of Contents

Introduction

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NOTES

Acknowledgements

Copyright

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Air Canada: The History (2014)

From Far and Wide: A History of Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty (2011)

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Given the very public deaths of aviators (editors knew that blaring headlines like “Air Tragedy” sold newspapers), it was little wonder that aviators were regarded as the latest form of acrobats, closer to trapeze artists than to pilots and working without even a safety net. Until 1927, pilots would be ineligible to purchase life insurance, a cause of concern to their widows, and the U.S. government census classified their occupation as “entertainers.” To be fair, besides the headlined crashes, the insurance industry had no accurate statistics to go on. If the popular aviation song for the era was “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine,” less romantic was doggerel from the period that said it better:

There was an old woman who lived in a hangar,

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