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Carol
, August 09, 2015
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While this book offers an interesting perspective on the accident, the lack of references, index and abbreviations glossary limits its value. Basically it's an opinion piece from a pilot who flies and trains pilots to fly this airplane, but who is unwilling to accept that design flaws may have contributed to the accident. Had the author wanted to write a work worthy of scholarly consideration, he would need to document his work and meticulously cite references to support his opinions. The fact that he failed to do so gives this book limited value to the aviation community. I have seen other reviews which indicate that his lack of explanation for aviation terminology makes the book primarily of interest to pilots; non-pilots will have a hard time following the technical aspects of the book. In addition, the author's sweeping generalizations and opinions stated as facts makes it hard to separate truth from personal opinion. Given the reduction of time allocated to train pilots at major airlines (from months to weeks) his assertion that training now is better than it ever was cannot be supported. The author lacks a historical perspective of airline operations and that weakness harms the book.
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