Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Why It Disappeared?and Why It?s Only a Matter of Time Before This Happens Again

by David Soucie

Overview

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 loaded 239 people on board and took off for what should have been a six-hour flight. It never made it—and it’s still missing. It’s been a year since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished, and there’s still no sign of the aircraft, its passengers, or its crew—nor confirmation of what happened or where the aircraft resides.

In this gripping investigation of the events that led to the plane’s disappearance—and why they could happen again—CNN aviation analyst David Soucie exposes the flaws in the aviation industry, shares what needs to be done so a plane doesn’t go missing again, and uses a Bayesian analysis model to reveal what most likely happened on board the plane that led to its downfall.

Comprehensive in scope, personal and empathetic in voice, Soucie draws on his thirty years of experience as an accident investigator working with the Federal Aviation Administration. He allows you to put the wild speculation about the plane’s disappearance aside and assess the facts through the eyes of an experienced accident investigator.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632208491
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	02/17/2015
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	188
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

David Soucie is CNN’s safety analyst and was a frequent guest during its coverage of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. He has thirty years of experience working with the Federal Aviation Administration as an aviation safety inspector and accident investigator, and has worked in the cockpit, on the hangar floor, and within the aviation boardroom. He is the author of Safer Skies, and has fought to obtain congressional approval for international safety program legislation put forth by the FAA.
David Soucie works with CNN as a safety analyst and with the Federal Aviation Administration as a member of the Safety Management Implementation (SMI) Committee. He is a former aviation safety inspector at the FAA.

Table of Contents

Preface v

1 Early Mistakes 1

2 Silent Running 5

3 Placing Blame 13

4 Groundhog Day 17

5 The Cost of Not Finding MH370 23

6 Cost-Benefit Analyses 27

7 The Text Message 33

8 Ocean Shield 37

9 Experimenting with kHz 43

10 GeoResonance 51

11 Stolen Passports 55

12 The Pilots 59

13 Rumors 65

14 The Passengers 69

15 Who Pays? 81

16 Timeline 89

17 Validated Assumptions 93

18 The Hand-Off Probability 97

19 The Insidious Nature of Hypoxia 101

20 Hatching a New Theory on Piers Morgan Live 105

21 The New Search 109

22 Lessons Learned? 111

23 The Sandpile Effect 115

24 Conclusions 119

25 From Tragedy to Calamity, and Where We Go From Here 123

26 The Accident Algorithm 127

Acknowledgments 159