Originally Posted by
blind pew
Some of it is taken from Aesop and is completely inaccurate especially with the Staines accident and CRM introduction into BA, it didn’t start for another decade, which is a theme in the loss of AF Concorde. If BA had CRM to the standard he alludes to how come his predecessor suddenly disappeared off the scene from running the Concorde fleet.
But the book is a good read especially with the Gonesse accident although he reveals the step in the runway which contributes or is the cause of the accident but imho doesn’t fully explain why.
I've read 44% of the book so far and it seems to me to suffer from editoritis - once you hand over the book to the publishers they can edit it to make it more sensational and sell more books in total ignorance of matters aviation-related. I've never written a whole book but I have done articles which have been similarly mangled, and then subsequently treated as fact and quoted as such. This is how Fake News begins.
This is why I write under a pen-name. I guess the author didn't have that option.
If just a pax like myself can see the glaring errors, goodness knows what professional pilots make of it.