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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Porter, Donald J., author.     Subjects     Aircraft accidents -- Investigation -- United States -- Case studies.     Airplanes -- United States -- Maintenance and repair -- Case studies.     Aeronautics -- United States -- Safety measures.     Disasters -- United States -- Case studies.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Porter, Donald J., author.       by title:      Flight failure : inv...         MARC Display

Flight failure : investigating the nuts and bolts of air disasters and aviation safety / Donald J. Porter. by Porter, Donald J., author. Guilford, Connecticut : Prometheus Books, [2020] Subjects Aircraft accidents -- Investigation -- United States -- Case studies.   Airplanes -- United States -- Maintenance and repair -- Case studies.   Aeronautics -- United States -- Safety measures.   Disasters -- United States -- Case studies. ISBN:  9781633886223 (paperback) : 1633886220 (paperback) : Description:  ix, 196 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm Contents:  Introduction -- Who's minding the store? -- Leaving Las Vegas -- Smoking gun -- Triple Nickel -- Disconnected -- Boxes and people -- Under the radar -- Then as now -- Unscrewed -- Blame game -- Loose nuts -- Outsourced. Requests:  0 Summary:  "This book chronicles maintenance-related accidents caused by individual, corporate, or governmental negligence and brings the industry's current state of affairs into sharp focus. The author, a former aviation engineer, examines how failures of the smallest of parts have brought down airliners, explaining sometimes esoteric mechanical issues for readers with no technical background. Vividly describing the terror of accidents and close calls, the author then follows the painstaking investigations to determine causes. He focuses on maintenance errors, which rank as one of the top three causes of airline accidents, and points to the factors that have led to an alarming situation-- continued reduction of licensed mechanics, the shutting down of maintenance bases in the United States, and the outsourcing of maintenance to lowballing contractors. Outsourcing has forced thousands of licensed mechanics into retirement or different careers. For those mechanics still employed in the United States, the ever-present threat to their jobs does nothing to cultivate loyalty to an employer and devotion to a task. The Federal Aviation Administration, which should be overseeing quality control, is caught in a conflicted dual role--charged with regulating safety on the one hand and assuring the fiscal stability of airlines on the other. This disturbing wakeup call for improved airline safety standards highlights the critical importance of attention to detail. Porter recommends that the numbers and job security of airline mechanics be increased and that they be vested with an authority level akin to medical professionals"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 363.12465 Po Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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