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Title: Flights into Oblivion: Airline Accidents and the Development of Air Safety by Allan Edwards ISBN: 0-946537-81-X Publisher: Paladwr Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Good Explanations But Short On Focus
Comment: Flights Into Oblivion looks at the aviation accidents of the century with an eye to their causes and consequences. Chapters focus on accident categories, such as landing crashes, weather accidents or collisions. Minor, unknown crashes are covered as well as major, infamous ones. Edwards explanations and descriptions are very good. This is particularly helpful in his chapters on structural/mechanical failure, where the reader needn't have any prior knowledge of aircraft design to follow along. I also liked the frequent descriptions of accidents from the point of view of doomed passengers, something we all think about but rarely read about in most publications. Unfortunately, though, the book suffers from lack of focus. The reader is shifted from idea to idea and incident to incident too quickly, in a way I found quite annoying. The shifting strips the book of all depth, leaving some chapters rather incomplete. There are also several errors in the book, most notably in the chapter on the KAL and Iran airbus shootdowns. Finally, I would say that Flights Into Oblivion is better for the casual reader than for the aviation enthusiast. The Latter would be better served by reading The Final Call by Barley.