The Crash Detectives

by Christine Negroni

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  INDEX

  Aboulafia, Richard, ref1, ref2

  Abu Bakar, Tan Sri Khalid, ref1

  Adair, Bill, ref1

  Air Accidents Investigation Branch of the U.K. Ministry of Transportation, ref1

  Air Botswana, ref1

  Airbus A35, ref1

  Airbus A300, ref1, ref2

  Airbus A320, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Airbus A321, ref1, ref2

  Airbus A330, ref1

  Airbus A380, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Air Canada Flight ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  air data inertial reference unit (ADIRU), ref1

  Air France Flight 447, ref1, ref2

  Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Air New Zealand Flight 901, ref1, ref2

  Antarctic Experience flights, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Air Registration Board, United Kingdom, ref1, ref2

  air traffic control (ATC)

  and accident investigation process, ref1

  and Air New Zealand Flight 901 crash, ref1, ref2

  and Albertina crash, ref1

  and ANA Flight 692, ref1

  and Arrow Air crash, ref1

  and cockpit resource management, ref1

  and Comet crashes, ref1

  communications with hypoxic crew, ref1, ref2, ref3

  and complexity of air safety system, ref1

  and flight simulations, ref1

  and Helios Flight 522, ref1

  and human factors, ref1, ref2

  and MH-370, ref1, ref2

  and Northwest Flight ref1, ref2

  and Qantas engine loss incident, ref1

  and radio navigation, ref1

  and Tenerife runway collision, ref1

  and United Flight 553, ref1

  Airline Training Center Arizona (ATCA), ref1

  Aizawa, Takeo, ref1

  Albertina (DC-6), ref1, ref2, ref3

  All Nippon Airways (ANA), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Allen, A. V. (Paddy), ref1

  Alport, Cuthbert, ref1, ref2

  Amelia Earhart Lives (Gervais), ref1

  Amelia Earhart: The Final Story (Loomis), ref1

  American Airlines, ref1, ref2

  American Trans Air Flight 406, ref1, ref2, ref3

  ANA Flight 692, ref1

  Antarctic Experience flights. See Air New Zealand Flight 901

  Arey, James, ref1

  Arizona State University Polytechnic, ref1, ref2

  Armstrong, Neil, ref1

  Arrow Air, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Asiana Airlines Flight ref1, ref2, ref3

  Atcheson, Alistair, ref1

  Australia Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), ref1, ref2, ref3

  automation in aircraft

  and Asiana Airlines Flight ref1, ref2

  and complexity, ref1

  and crew complacency, ref1

  and navigation, ref1

  overall impact on flight safety, ref1

  and status reports, ref1

  autopsies, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Aviation Medical Society of Australia and New Zealand, ref1

  Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASARS), ref1

  Avro 10 Fokker, ref1

  B-16, ref1

  B-299, ref1

  Babbitt, Randy, ref1

  BAC-111, ref1

  Baker, Daniel, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Baker, Jim, ref1

  Barnett, Brian, ref1

  Bartelsk, Jan, ref1

  batteries. See lithium ion batteries

  Bayes, Thomas, ref1

  Beaty, David, ref1, ref2

  Bellegarrigue, Stephanie, ref1

  Benzon, Bob, ref1

  Berman, Ben, ref1

  Besco, Robert, ref1

  Bird, Mark Louis, ref1

  black boxes, ref1. See also cockpit voice recorders; flight data recorders

  Blaszczak, James, ref1, ref2

  Boag, Peter, ref1, ref2

  Bobbitt, Norm, ref1

  Boeing 299, ref1

  Boeing 727, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Boeing 737, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Boeing 747

  and aircraft tracking systems, ref1

  and fuel tank explosions, ref1

  and the Lockheed L-1011, ref1

  and rapid decompression incidents, ref1

  and Tenerife runway collision, ref1, ref2

  and TWA Flight 800 crash, ref1

  and water damage to electronics, ref1, ref2

  Boeing 767, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Boeing 777. See also 9M-MRO; Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

  and aircraft tracking systems, ref1, ref2, ref3

  altitude and fuel consumption rates, ref1

  and avionics bay damage, ref1

  and death of pilot, ref1

  and flight control systems, ref1

  and preflight programming, ref1

  and wind shear, ref1, ref2

  Boeing 787 (Dreamliner)

  and battery, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  complexity of, ref1

  and fuel tank design, ref1

  and human factors, ref1

  and preflight programming, ref1

  and testing procedures, ref1

  Boeing Co., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4. See also specific aircraft

  Boeing Flying Fortress, ref1

  Bolam, Irene, ref1

  Bolivian Board of Inquiry on Accidents and Incidents, ref1

  Bombardier, ref1, ref2

  Brabazon, John Theodore Cuthbert Moore, Lord, ref1

  Bragg, Robert, ref1

  British Air Line Pilots Association (BALPA), ref1

  British Airways Flight ref1, ref2, ref3

  British Airways Flight 5390, ref1

  British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Brock, Horace, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Brooks, Gordon, ref1

  Brown, Laura, ref1

  Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses, France, ref1

  Burkill, Peter, ref1, ref2

  Burnett, Jim, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bury, John, ref1

  Bush Pilot with a Briefcase (McConachie), ref1

  cabin pressure, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Cambert, Marc, ref1

  Cameron, David, ref1

  Canadian Aviation Safety Boa
rd (CASB), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Canadian Pacific Airlines, ref1

  Cassin, Anne, ref1

  Cassin, Greg, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  “center of confusion,” ref1

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). See Central Intelligence Agency

  Charalambous, Pambos, ref1, ref2

  checklists, ref1, ref2, ref3

  China Clipper, ref1

  Chippindale, Ron, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Chiu, José, ref1, ref2

  Civil Aviation Division of New Zealand (CAD), ref1, ref2

  Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia (CASA), ref1, ref2

  Clipper Victor, ref1

  cockpit resource management (CRM), ref1, ref2, ref3

  cockpit voice recorders, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Coiley, David, ref1

  Colgan Flight 3406, ref1

  Collins, Jim, ref1, ref2

  Colson, Charles, ref1

  Comet! The World’s First Jetliner (Simons), ref1

  communications technology, ref1, ref2, ref3. See also radio communications and navigation; satellite technology

  composite materials, ref1

  “cone of ambiguity,” ref1, ref2

  Conner, Ray, ref1

  conspiracy and coverup theories, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Coward, John, ref1

  Cox, John, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Crandall, Robert, ref1

  crew resource management (CRM), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Crosby, John, ref1, ref2

  CTC Wings of New Zealand, ref1

  Cummings, Missy, ref1

  Cupit, Zoe, ref1

  Currall, Bernie, ref1

  Dahn, Jeff, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Davis, Arthur, ref1

  Davis, Morrie, ref1

  DC-3, ref1

  DC-6, ref1, ref2, ref3

  DC-8, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  DC-9, ref1

  DC-10, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  dead reckoning, ref1

  Deadly Departure (Negroni), ref1, ref2

  de Crespigny, Richard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  deHaven-Smith, Lance, ref1

  de Havilland Comet, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Del E. Webb High Altitude Training Chamber, ref1, ref2

  Democratic Republic of the Congo. See Republic of the Congo

  dendrites, ref1, ref2

  Department of Civil Aviation, Malaysia, ref1

  DH-100 Vampire, ref1

  digitization of flight, ref1. See also automation in aircraft Dion, Rick, ref2

  direction-finding systems, ref1, ref2. See also navigation systems and errors

  Disaster in the Air (Haine), ref1

  Disasters in the Air (Bartelsk), ref1

  Dismukes, Key, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Divine Benevolence (Bayes), ref1

  Domenici, Folco, ref1, ref2

  Dorday, Alan, ref1

  Douglas 1B, ref1

  Douglas Aircraft, ref1

  Dover, Ed, ref1

  Doyle, Millard, ref1

  Dreamliner. See Boeing 787

  drug trafficking, ref1

  dual-use alarms, ref1

  Duke University Humans and Autonomy Lab, ref1

  Dvorak, Dudley, ref1

  Earhart, Amelia, ref1, ref2

  Eastern Airlines Flight 401, ref1, ref2

  Eastern Airlines Flight 980, ref1

  Eastern Airlines L-1011 “Whisperliner,” ref1, ref2

  Edwards Air Force Base, ref1

  EgyptAir Flight 990, ref1, ref2

  Eidson, Patricia, ref1

  electronics and equipment room (E&E bay), ref1, ref2

  Elizabeth, Queen of England, ref1

  Embraer E-Jets, ref1

  Embraer Legacy business jets, ref1

  Emirates Airline, ref1

  Empress of Hawaii, ref1

  engine failures, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Engle, Michael, ref1

  Errington, Al, ref1, ref2

  Estey, Willard, ref1

  Evans, Dave, ref1, ref2

  Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Feiring, Timothy, ref1

  Feith, Greg, ref1

  Fernandez, Edouard, ref1

  Ferrante, Oliver, ref1

  Feynman, Richard, ref1

  Fichte, Royce, ref1

  field failures, ref1, ref2

  Fielitz, Dillon, ref1

  Filotas, Les, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Final Destination: Disaster (Jehn), ref1

  Fitch, Denny, ref1, ref2

  Fix on the Rising Sun (Hill), ref1, ref2

  Flach, John, ref1

  FlightAware.com, ref1, ref2

  flight data recorders, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Flight Safety Foundation, ref1, ref2

  flight simulators, ref1, ref2

  Flying Fortress. See Boeing Flying Fortress

  Flying the Oceans (Brock), ref1, ref2

  Foong, Caleb, ref1, ref2

  Foote, Harry, ref1, ref2, ref3

  FORDEC mnemonic, ref1, ref2

  Frei-Shulzer, Max, ref1

  Frey, Pete, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Frostell, Caj, ref1

  fuel systems and consumption, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Futtrell, Dan, ref1

  Gadd, Richard, ref1

  Gadzinski, John, ref1, ref2

  Garber, Mitch, ref1

  Garner, Robert, ref1

  Gemmell, Ian, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Gerber, Allen, ref1

  Gerber, Mark, ref1

  German Aerospace Center, ref1

  GermanWings, ref1, ref2

  Gervais, Joseph, ref1, ref2

  Gibson, Alan, ref1

  Gilpin, Greg, ref1

  Gimli Air Base, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Ginsberg, Arthur, ref1

  Gonzales, Laurence, ref1

  Goodenough, John, ref1

  Gray, Harry, ref1

  Great Aerodrome, ref1

  Green, Hal, ref1

  Green, Kerry, ref1

  Greenwood, David, ref1

  Greenwood, Robert, ref1

  ground stall, ref1

  Grubbs, Victor, ref1

  GS Yuasa, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Guarachi, Bernardo, ref1

  hacking theories, ref1

  Haddon, Maurice, ref1

  Hallonquist, Per-Erik, ref1, ref2

  Hamid, Fariq Abdul

  and depressurization scenario, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  professional background, ref1, ref2

  responsibilities on MH-370, ref1, ref2

  training of 777, ref1

  Hammarskjöld, Dag, ref1, ref2, ref3

  handshake messages, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Harper, Robert H. T., ref1

  Haueter, Tom, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hawaii Clipper, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Haynes, Al, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Helios Flight 522, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Heller, Joseph, ref1

  Hersman, Deborah, ref1

  Hicks, Matt, ref1, ref2, ref3

  high altitude training, ref1

  Highest Duty (Skiles), ref1

  hijackings, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Hill, Charles, ref1, ref2

  Hill, Ployer P., ref1

  Hillary, Edmund, ref1

  Hirata, Koichi, ref1

  Holst, Kim, ref1

  Hoover, J. Edgar, ref1

  Howland Island, ref1, ref2

  Hudson River water landing, ref1, ref2

  Huerta, Michael, ref1

  Hughes, Howard, ref1

  The Human Contribution (Reason), ref1

  “human factors,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Humans and Autonomy Lab. See Duke University Humans and Autonomy Lab

  Hunt, Dorothy, ref1, ref2

  Hunt, E. Howard, ref1

  Hussein, Hishammuddi
n, ref1, ref2

  Hyfil composite, ref1

  hypoxia

  and dual use warning horns, ref1

  and Helios Flight 522, ref1

  and high altitude training, ref1

  and importance of accident investigation, ref1

  and MH-370 scenario, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Improbable Cause (Filotas), ref1, ref2

  Independent Organization for the Liberation of Egypt, ref1

  Inmarsat, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Institute of Forensic Medicine. See Pisa Institute of Forensic Medicine

  International Association for Fire Safety Science, ref1

  International Civil Aviation Organization, ref1

  International Space Station, ref1

  Iran-Contra Affair, ref1, ref2

  Islamic extremism, ref1, ref2

  Israel Aircraft Industries Westwind, ref1

  Jackson, Ronald W., ref1

  James, Dominic, ref1

  Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA), ref1

  Japan Airlines (JAL), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB), ref1, ref2

  Jeevarajan, Judy, ref1, ref2

  Jehn, George, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Johnson, Mark, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Journal of Air Transportation, ref1

  Julien, Harry, ref1

  Kalitta Flying Service, ref1

  Kametani, Masaki, ref1

  Kankasa, Timothy, ref1

  Katanga, ref1, ref2

  Katz, Harvey L., ref1

  Kawamura, Kenichi, ref1

  Keith, Ronald, ref1

  Kelly, Judith, ref1, ref2

  Kelly, William, ref1

  Kippenberger, E. T., ref1

  Kippenberger, Lisanne, ref1

  Kippenberger, Matthias, ref1, ref2

  Kissinger, Peter, ref1

  Kitka, Ed, ref1

  Klaas, Joe, ref1

  L-1011 jumbo jet, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Lacroix, Roger, ref1, ref2

  Lafortune, Helene, ref1

  Lamanov, Andrei, ref1

  Lancaster, Tim, ref1, ref2

  Lancaster heavy bomber, ref1

  landing gear failures, ref1

  Langley, Samuel, ref1

  La Paz, Bolivia, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Larsen, Lewis, ref1, ref2

  Last Flight (Earhart), ref1

  Lattice Energy LLC, ref1

  Lauber, John, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Learjets, ref1

  Lee Jung-min, ref1, ref2

  Lee Kang-guk, ref1, ref2

  Leighton, Stuart, ref1

  Lenell, Craig, ref1

  LENRs (low energy nuclear reactions), ref1

  Leon, Michael, ref1

  Leslie, John C., ref1

  Lindbergh, Charles, ref1

  lithium ion batteries, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Lockheed Constellation, ref1

  Lockheed Electra, ref1, ref2

  Lockheed L-1011 jumbo jet, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Loft, Bob, ref1

  Loomis, Vincent, ref1