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I am somewhat interested in reading about plane crashes and such. Are there any books/resources you can recommend to me?

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ohdannyboy|4 years ago

If you like documentaries there is a whole genre on Youtube that covers air incidents. Lots exist but the ones I follow are Mentour Pilot (technical / crew focused analysis from an airline pilot), Wonder (more TV style focused on the passengers and stories), Air Safety Institute and FlyWire- scott perdue (small-time incident analysis geared towards educating private pilots).

avh02|4 years ago

Personally I just go through Wikipedia articles, some are a little short on details but will often enough link you to more I'm depth information.

I end up just jumping from one article to another through the "see also" links and similar accidents

Edit: occasionally you'd also find a podcast episode covering a particular crash or documentaries like air crash investigation or similar

randycupertino|4 years ago

The youtube video of the guy hangliding which took off without him strapped in is pretty incredible. He survived by holding on, only ended up breaking his wrist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBJA8SlH2w

mardifoufs|4 years ago

There's a guy on reddit making a written series on air crashes, with articles every Saturday and it's been going for a few years now.

https://www.old.reddit.com/r/AdmiralCloudberg/

It's obviously not extremely technical (though a lot more than I'd have thought), and it's probably nothing you can't get from more in depth websites but it's neatly organized, well written and the articles are getting better and better. I like that he keeps conjecture to a minimum too but still points out what lessons can be learnt from the tragedies.

The only thing is that I'd recommend reading it through the Medium link he posts in the comments instead of the linked imgur albums. It's a much better experience

meierjo|4 years ago

There's a TV show that is kinda good: "Mayday". It may also be called " air disasters" or some such in different locations.

Edit: here's a wiki link:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mayday_episodes

interestica|4 years ago

More than just the accidents, you can keep up with all the random incidents that are reported (and could potentially have been worse).

Eg last month "Screwdriver tip left in engine during maintenance results in engine failure on take-off"

https://aviation-safety.net/