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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 Champion 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 2012
Shortlisted ABIA Awards' Book of the Year 2013
- Sales Rank: #143187 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-08-01
- Released on: 2012-08-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
Most helpful customer reviews
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Overestimated
By Amazon Customer
It is rather a biography , not covering the main target
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Why Aircrew have to be the best trained!
By DesM
When I first started reading this book I found it a bit dull as the writer gives a lengthy insight to his personal history and life journey before we get to the incident of QF32. However once I got to that stage I was very pleasantly surprised to find that the preamble was really an important part of the whole story as it gave a great understanding of the reasons for his actions. His coolness under pressure along with the rest of the crew on the aircraft heavily underlines the reason why aircrew and cabin crew must be trained to such a high standard. It's not hard to see why Qantas trained crew are so highly regarded internationally when you read this detailed account of the crews actions under extreme pressure.
The book gives an insight into the man his family, his training, professionalism and his empathy with passengers and crew, a quality sadly lacking in many cases.
I too remain puzzled by the review from The Sage which looks more like a personal attack on the author than a book review!
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
A rivetting real life thriller - disaster avoided
By Suncoast
This real-life thriller about how a Qantas Airbus A380 super jumbo landed safely after a catastrophic engine explosion was as rivetting as most of the fictional adventure thrillers that I read normally. While there is a lot of technical detail most of it is essential to be able to understand what happened.
On 4 November 2010 Qantas flight QF32 with 469 people on board left Singapore on a routine flight to Sydney. Just before the Captain (Richard de Crespigny) turned off the seatbelts sign there was a double explosion in Engine 2 that sent metal shrapnel through the wing and fuel tanks and damaged or wrecked many of the computer controlled flying systems.
Captain de Crespigny has written a comprehensive description of what happened that day and how his team of very experienced pilots and superb cabin staff prevented what could have been the largest air disaster ever. He has written the book as a partial autobiography which describes his personal and flying experiences that helped him handle this unbelievable situation. Despite all of the traumas, De Crespigny still believes that the A380 is one of the safest planes in the sky, especially as it could survive damage that would almost certainly have caused other planes to crash.
The Captain and his crew were faced with an explosion and failure of Engine 2 which resulted in degrading of the performance and power of Engines 1 and 4 and failure of reverse thrust in one of the 2 enabled engines. Many hydraulic systems failed as the shrapnel cut wiring controls. Fuel pumps failed and there were more than 14 fuel leaks. The landing gear could only be set by gravity. There were 77 penetrations of the wing and 500 impacts on the fuselage by the shrapnel.
The story tells what happened in the cockpit and the passenger cabin during the 2 hours before a landing could be attempted and De Crespigny stopped the plane within 100 metres of the end of a 4,000 metre runway and near to waiting airport fire tenders. Even after an amazing landing the danger was not over as fuel was leaking near the braking system that had reached 1,000C during the emergency landing and the engines could not be stopped.
"It doesn't matter how well trained you are for these incidents, when they actually occur it leaves an emotional scar." While he was super confident during the crisis, Captain de Crespigny re-lived every second of the event as post traumatic stress hit him when he returned to Sydney and it took 4 months before he was able to fly again.
This book seems to have been written as a cathargic response and a pre-emptive description of events ahead of the release of the detailed, but bureaucratic Air Transport Safety Report at the end of 2012.
This is an important book about aircraft safety and the importance of pilot and crew training and teamwork. I hope that the publisher can arrange for the book to be released internationally (it is currently only available in Australia).
I normally read Kindle versions but this time read a print copy of the book already purchased by my wife.
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