Black Box

The smash-hit best-seller about the world’s worst air crashes – and why they happened

 

A state-of-the-art Airbus simply vanishes somewhere over the Atlantic… A Concorde goes down in a fireball seconds after take-off… 583 people die when two 747s collide on a fog-bound runway… A rogue passenger shoots his boss – and then the pilots – at 30,000ft over the USA, killing everyone aboard… A tired and confused crew fly their jet straight into a mountain… A flock of swans at 6,000ft brings down a United Airlines flight over New Jersey…

 

In the air, disaster strikes in many forms and at unexpected moments – and when it does there is often no escape.

 

Black Box is a masterful re-telling of the worst disasters in aviation history. From the early tragedies of the Comet and the DC10 to the modern-day horror of the Concorde catastrophe in Paris and the mysterious loss of an Air France Airbus over the Atlantic, Faith painstakingly recreates the accidents, explains what went wrong and discusses how they can be prevented from recurring. It's a gripping, fascinating and chilling book.

 

 

Nicholas Faith is a highly-respected writer who has worked for The Sunday Times, The Economist and The Financial Times