Air Disasters

A passenger jet vanishes without explanation. A Boeing 747 loses all four engines at 37,000 feet. A captain is blown halfway out of his cockpit. Another airliner runs completely out of fuel and becomes a glider.

Air Disasters: The Deadliest Tales explores fourteen extraordinary aviation incidents in which routine flights became battles for survival, mysteries that took years to solve, or tragedies that permanently changed the way we fly.

From the catastrophic collision at Tenerife and the haunting disappearance of MH370 to the Gimli Glider, Air France Flight 447, Japan Airlines Flight 123 and the extraordinary survival of United Airlines Flight 232, each chapter reconstructs what happened using official investigations, technical evidence and documented accounts.

These are not simply stories of aircraft crashing. They are stories of tiny maintenance errors with enormous consequences, pilots improvising when normal systems have failed, machines surviving damage they were never expected to endure, and investigators piecing together answers from wreckage scattered across mountains and oceans.

Some ended in devastating loss.
Others should have - but somehow didn't.

Written in an accessible narrative style without sacrificing factual accuracy, Air Disasters: The Deadliest Tales takes readers inside some of aviation history's strangest, deadliest and most mysterious flights.