Allen & Unwin The Crash Detectives book History English Paperback 288 pages

A fascinating exploration of how humans and machines fail - leading to air disasters from Amelia Earhart to MH370 - and how the lessons learned from these accidents have made flying safer.

In The Crash Detectives, aviation journalist and air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes the reader inside crash investigations from the early days of the jet age to the present, including the search for answers about what happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.As Negroni dissects each accident, she explores the common themes and, most importantly, what has been learned from them to make planes safer. Along the way, she also details some miraculous saves, when quick-thinking pilots averted catastrophe and kept hundreds of people alive.Tying in aviation science, performance psychology and extensive interviews with pilots, engineers, human factors specialists and crash survivors, The Crash Detectives is an alternately terrifying and inspiring book that might just cure your fear of flying, and will definitely make you a more informed passenger.

Journalist, aviation blogger, documentary producer and crash investigator Christine Negroni has more than fifteen years' experience observing and participating in the international effort to create safer skies. She currently reports for the New York Times, ABC News and Air & Space.