QF32: From the author of Fly!: Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32

Author(s): Richard de Crespigny

Biography & Memoir | Planes Trains Automobiles

QF32 is the award winning bestseller from Richard de Crespigny, author of the forthcoming Fly!: Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 On 4 November 2010, a flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife edge of being one of the world's worst air disasters. Shortly after leaving Changi Airport, an explosion shattered Engine 2 of Qantas flight QF32 - an Airbus A380, the largest and most advanced passenger plane ever built. Hundreds of pieces of shrapnel ripped through the wing and fuselage, creating chaos as vital flight systems and back-ups were destroyed or degraded.In other hands, the plane might have been lost with all 469 people on board, but a supremely experienced flight crew, led by Captain Richard de Crespigny, managed to land the crippled aircraft and safely disembark the passengers after hours of nerve-racking effort.Tracing Richard's life and career up until that fateful flight, QF32 shows exactly what goes into the making of a top-level airline pilot, and the extraordinary skills and training needed to keep us safe in the air. Fascinating in its detail and vividly compelling in its narrative, QF32 is the riveting, blow-by-blow story of just what happens when things go badly wrong in the air, told by the captain himself.Winner of ABIA Awards for Best General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2013 and Indie Awards' Best Non-fiction 2012Shortlisted ABIA Awards' Book of the Year 2013

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Indie Book Awards Winner 2013

General Fields

  • : 9781742611174
  • : Pan Macmillan Australia
  • : Pan Australia
  • : 0.572
  • : August 2012
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : April 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 368
  • : Paperback
  • : Richard de Crespigny