The Crash Detectives

by Christine Negroni

  Los Rodeos Airport (Tenerife), ref1

  Lubitz, Andreas, ref1

  Lucas, Graham, ref1

  MacIntosh, Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Macmillan, Gus, ref1

  MacNeill, William L., ref1

  Magenis, Conor, ref1

  Mahon, Peter, ref1, ref2

  Malaysia Airlines Flight ref1, ref2, ref3

  Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH-370)

  and conspiracy theories, ref1, ref2

  and cultural challenges of investigation, ref1

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

  and electrical system failures, ref1, ref2

  and geopolitical theories, ref1, ref2

  and ground maintenance procedures, ref1

  and human error, ref1

  and importance of accident investigation, ref1

  and location data, ref1, ref2

  pilot training, ref1

  and preflight programming, ref1

  and scarcity of physical evidence, ref1, ref2

  search zone for, ref1, ref2

  Manly, Charles, ref1

  Martin 130 flying boat, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6. See also Hawaii Clipper

  Martin ref1, ref2, ref3

  Mastracchio, Christin Hart, ref1

  Mauro, Robert, ref1

  McCarty, William, ref1, ref2, ref3

  McClure, Don, ref1, ref2

  McConachie, Grant, ref1, ref2

  McCormick, John, ref1, ref2

  McDonnell Douglas, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  McFarlane, Robert, ref1

  McGrew, Jean, ref1

  McInerney, Thomas, ref1, ref2

  McMeekin, Robert, ref1

  McMurdo Sound, ref1, ref2

  MD-80, ref1

  mercenaries, ref1, ref2

  Merten, Hans-Jürgen, ref1

  metal fatigue, ref1

  Metrojet, ref1, ref2

  Metron Scientific Solutions, ref1

  Meurs, Klaas, ref1

  Miyoshi, Ayumu Skip, ref1

  Moloney, Nick, ref1

  Mostert, Willem Karel, ref1

  Mount Erebus, Antarctica, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Mount Illimani, Bolivia, ref1

  Mozambique Airlines Flight 470, ref1

  Mulgrew, Peter, ref1

  Murphy, Stephen, ref1

  Mussallem, Dave, ref1

  The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside a Crash Investigation (Adair), ref1

  Nance, John, ref1, ref2

  NASA. See U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  navigation systems and errors, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Ngongo, John, ref1

  9M-MRO, ref1, ref2, ref3. See also Boeing 777; Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH-370)

  Noffsinger, Guy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Nolen, Billy, ref1

  Noonan, Fred, ref1

  Norhisham Kassim, ref1, ref2, ref3

  North, Oliver, ref1

  Northern Rhodesia, ref1, ref2

  Northwest Airlines Flight ref1, ref2

  Norwegian Air Accident Investigation Board, ref1

  Novoselov, Yevgeny, ref1

  Of Flight and Life (Lindbergh), ref1

  Ogden, Nigel, ref1

  Omega navigation system, ref1

  Operation Overdue (2014), ref1

  O’Rourke, Michael, ref1, ref2

  Oubaid, Viktor, ref1

  oxygen deprivation. See hypoxia

  Ozawa, Kazunori, ref1

  Pan American Airways. See also Hawaii Clipper

  and fears of Japanese espionage, ref1

  and flight deck authority, ref1

  and Noonan, ref1, ref2

  and radio navigation, ref1

  and seaplane service, ref1

  and Terletsky, ref1

  and transpacific flights, ref1, ref2

  and Walker, ref1

  Paqua, David, ref1

  Parker Hannifin, ref1

  Pearson, Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Pel-Air, ref1

  Pentland, Charles, ref1, ref2

  Perreault, William, ref1

  phugoids, ref1, ref2

  The Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (U.S. Department of Transportation), ref1

  pilot suicide, ref1, ref2

  Pinto, Ruy, ref1

  Pisa Institute of Forensic Medicine, ref1

  The Plane That Wasn’t There (Wise), ref1

  Poindexter, Richard, ref1

  power control units (PCU), ref1

  Pratt & Whitney, ref1, ref2

  preflight checks and programming, ref1, ref2. See also checklists

  pressurization systems, ref1, ref2, ref3

  prevention of accidents, ref1, ref2

  Prodromou, Andreas, ref1

  Purdy, Charlotte, ref1

  Purvis, John, ref1

  Putnam, George, ref1

  Putt, Donald, ref1

  Qantas Airways

  Antarctica flights, ref1

  and electronics damage, ref1, ref2

  and engine loss incident, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  and pilot checklists, ref1

  and rapid decompression incident, ref1

  Qantas Airways Flight ref1, ref2, ref3

  Qantas Airways Flight ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  QF32 (de Crespigny), ref1

  Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs of Malaysia Airlines. See also Malaysian Airlines, ref1

  Quintal, Maurice, ref1, ref2, ref3

  radar systems, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  radio communications and navigation, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Ramli, Nadira, ref1

  Reagan, Ronald, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Reason, James, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Records, William, ref1

  reduced vertical separation minima airspace (RVSM), ref1

  Renslow, Marvin, ref1

  Repo, Don, ref1

  Republic of the Congo, ref1

  Robinson, Glenn, ref1

  Robinson, Tim, ref1

  Rojas, Grover, ref1

  Rolls-Royce, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Royal Aeronautical Society. See U.K. Royal Aeronautical Society

  Royal Aircraft Establishment. See U.K. Royal Aircraft Establishment

  Royal Air Force. See U.K. Royal Air Force

  Royal Air Maroc, ref1

  Royal Canadian Mounted Police, ref1, ref2

  Royal Commission, ref1, ref2

  Royal Malaysian Police, ref1

  rudder control, ref1

  sabotage, ref1, ref2, ref3. See also hacking theories

  Santamarta, Ruben, ref1

  satellite technology, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Sawle, North, ref1

  Schleede, Ron, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Schreuder, Willem, ref1

  Schulze, Dana, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Securaplane Technologies, ref1

  Seidlein, George, ref1

  Selfridge, Thomas, ref1

  September 11 terrorist attacks, ref1

  Shah, Zaharie Ahmad, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, ref1, ref2

  Sharp, John, ref1

  Shaw, Jim, ref1

  Shaw, Rebecca, ref1

  Sherr, Lynn, ref1

  Shih-Chieh Lu, ref1

  Siegel, Robert, ref1

  SilkAir, ref1

  similarity analysis, ref1

  Simons, Graham, ref1, ref2

  Sinnett, Mike, ref1

  Skiles, Jeff, ref1, ref2

  Smith, C. R., ref1

  Snyder, George, ref1

  Soft, Safeli, ref1

  Sondenheimer, Patrick, ref1

  Sony Energy Devices Corporation, ref1

  Spanair Flight 5022, ref1

  speed records, ref1

  squawk codes, ref1

  Stabile, James, ref1

  Stabile, James, Jr., ref1, ref2

  status messages, ref1, ref2

/>   Stevenson, Ross, ref1

  Stewart, Payne, ref1, ref2

  Stiles, Rus, ref1

  Stockstill, Bert, ref1

  Stone, Larry, ref1

  Stoner, Isaac, ref1

  Strand, Laura, ref1

  Strange Encounters: Mysteries of the Air (Beaty), ref1

  Stroessner, Alfredo, ref1

  Stromboli, ref1

  structural failures, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Sullenberger, Chesley, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Sumwalt, Robert, ref1

  Sunderland flying boat, ref1

  supplemental oxygen systems, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Swissair Flight ref1, ref2, ref3

  Takahashi, Mamoru, ref1

  takeoff procedures, ref1

  Tales from the Morgue (Wecht), ref1

  Tangeman, Cort, ref1

  Terletsky, Leo, ref1, ref2, ref3

  terrorism, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Thorneycroft, Ken, ref1

  Tooke, Mike, ref1

  Tower, Leslie, ref1

  toxicological exams, ref1

  Tramontano, Nick, ref1

  transponders, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Transportation Safety Board of Canada, ref1

  Trippe, Juan, ref1, ref2

  Trotter, Barry, ref1

  Tshombe, Moise, ref1

  Tsuji, Koji, ref1

  Tupelov TU-154, ref1

  Turing, Alan, ref1

  TWA Flight 800, ref1, ref2, ref3

  United Airlines Flight ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  United Airlines Flight 553, ref1

  United Airlines Flight 585, ref1

  U.K. Royal Aeronautical Society, ref1

  U.K. Royal Air Force, ref1, ref2

  U.K. Royal Aircraft Establishment, ref1, ref2

  United Nations, ref1, ref2, ref3. See also Hammarskjöld, Dag

  USAir Flight 427, ref1

  U.S. Air Force, ref1

  U.S. Armed Forces Pathology Lab, ref1

  U.S. Army, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  U.S. Army Air Corps, ref1, ref2

  U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce, ref1

  U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), ref1, ref2

  U.S. Coast Guard, ref1

  U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, ref1, ref2

  U.S. Department of Justice, ref1

  U.S. Department of Transportation, ref1, ref2

  U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

  and Arrow Air crash, ref1

  and battery system safety, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  and dual use warning horns, ref1

  and Dreamliner, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  and Eastern Airlines Flight 980 crash, ref1

  and fire safety materials, ref1

  and human factors, ref1

  and rudder control failures, ref1

  and 3P mnemonic, ref1

  and transponder rules, ref1

  and USAir Flight 427 crash, ref1

  U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), ref1, ref2, ref3

  U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  U.S. NASA Ames Research Center, ref1

  U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), ref1

  U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

  and Air New Zealand Flight 901 crash, ref1

  and Arrow Air crash, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  and battery system safety, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  and crew complacency problems, ref1, ref2

  and Eastern Airlines Flight 980 crash, ref1, ref2, ref3

  and fuel tank design, ref1

  and Helios Flight 522 crash, ref1

  and human factors, ref1

  and oxygen masks, ref1

  and rudder control failures, ref1

  and technical expertise, ref1

  U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command, ref1

  The United States of Paranoia (Walker), ref1

  U.S. Peace Corps, ref1, ref2

  United Technologies, ref1

  unpressurized aircraft, ref1

  Vander Stucken, Alisa, ref1

  Vandyk, Anthony, ref1

  Van Zanten, Jacob, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Verdict on Erebus (Mahon), ref1

  Vette, Gordon, ref1

  Vickers Viscount, ref1

  Vidal, Gene, ref1

  Walker, Jesse, ref1

  Walker, Mark, ref1

  Walsh, Julian, ref1

  Warns, George, ref1

  Washburn, Brad, ref1

  water damage, ref1, ref2

  weapons on aircraft, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5. See also Iran-Contra Affair

  weather conditions, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Wecht, Cyril, ref1

  Wheatley, John, ref1

  Whittle, Frank, ref1

  Who Killed Hammarskjöld? (Williams), ref1, ref2

  Wickens, Christopher D., ref1

  Williams, Richard, ref1

  Williams, Susan, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Williamson, Maurice, ref1

  wind shear, ref1, ref2

  Wise, Jeff, ref1, ref2

  Witkin, Richard, ref1

  Wright brothers, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Wright Flyer, ref1

  Wubben, Harry, ref1, ref2

  X-15, ref1

  Young, John, ref1

  Zeru, Desta, ref1

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