QF32
De Crespigny, Richard2012
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In 2010, a long-haul flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife-edge of becoming one of the world's worst ever air disaster. When a mid-air explosion shattered engine no.2of the Qantas A380 shrapnel ripped through the wing and fuselage...
Main title:
QF32 / by Richard De Crespigny [with Mark Abernathy]
Imprint:
Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2012
Collation:
351 pages colour illustrations
Contents:
First flight -- Planes, balloons and duels -- With wings as eagles -- Wombat airlines -- Aide-de-camp -- The road to Cairo -- Twenty minutes of fame -- Steam power -- 747-400 -- The far side -- 'Embrace' -- A380 -- Pre-flight -- Boom!... BOOM! -- The Armstrong spiral (HAC) -- QF32 down! -- ECAM armagedon -- Apollo 13 -- If you can't trim, you can't fly -- Housekeeping -- It won't do it! -- Through the looking glass -- It's now or never -- Threading the eye of a needle -- Round (phase) II -- Evacuate -- Quantas is not going to like this! -- Deja vu -- Stub pipe -- Wash-up -- Appendices: Appendix 1. Letters and emails Richard received from passengers on QF32 -- Appendix 2. A380 specifications
ISBN:
9781742611174 (paperback)
Dewey class:
BIOGRAPHY
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
84780
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | BIOGRAPHY DECR | Available |