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9780801886317

Beyond the Black Box : The Forensics of Airplane Crashes

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801886317

  • ISBN10:

    0801886317

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-12-19
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Summary

The black box is orange -- and there are actually two of them. They house the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, instruments vital to airplane crash analyses. But accident investigators cannot rely on the black boxes alone. Beginning with the 1931 Fokker F-10A crash that killed legendary football coach Knute Rockne, this fascinating book provides a behind the scenes look at plane wreck investigations. Professor George Bibel shows how forensic experts, scientists, and engineers analyze factors like impact, debris, loading, fire patterns, metallurgy, fracture, crash testing, and human tolerances to determine why planes fall from the sky -- and how the information gleaned from such reconstructions is incorporated into aircraft design and operation to keep commercial aviation as safe as possible.

Author Biography

George Bibel, a former NASA summer faculty fellow, is a professor of mechanical engineering at the School of Engineering and Mines, University of North Dakota. He recently completed the Air Line Pilots Association Advanced Accident Investigation Course.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
The Crash Investigation Processp. 1
How Planes (Often) Crashp. 12
In-Flight Breakupp. 58
Pressure, Explosive Decompression, and Burst Balloonsp. 87
Jet Propulsion, Burst Engines, and Reliabilityp. 168
Metal Fatigue: Bending 777s and Paper Clipsp. 219
Combustion: Fire and Explosionp. 251
Crash Testingp. 292
Human Tolerances to G Loads and Crash Forcesp. 336
Notesp. 365
Referencesp. 375
Indexp. 387
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