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The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World’s Most Mysterious Air Disasters
Negroni, Christine. Penguin Books, 2016. 276 pp. Photographs, bibliography, index.
No matter how lengthy, painstaking and difficult an aviation accident investigation may be, causal factors usually are determined through standard procedures, such as examining the wreckage and analyzing cockpit voice and flight data recordings and transponder signals from the accident aircraft. But a few accidents puzzle the experts and give rise to competing theories, remaining unresolved even after years. In The Crash Detectives, aviation journalist Christine Negroni examines controversial cases that refuse to fit into standard categories or yield their secrets.
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