The Learning Never Stops!
Aviation is complicated business, and it can be deadly if not undertaken with the right mindset. Our goal here at Code 7700 is to prepare you to avoid the day you will need to Squawk 7700, but if that day ever comes, to prepare you to deal with it competently.
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Another Pacific island. Another dark night, with rain and gusty winds, and yet another instrument approach to a runway without an electronic glide slope. A Pan Am 707 plowed through the jungle, short of the runway, then burned. Ninety-one people perished. By now it was clear to everyone, even the Skygods. The crash of Flight 806 on the island of Pago Pago brought to ten the number of Pan American 707s destroyed. Pan Am was littering the islands of the Pacific with the hulks of Boeing jetliners.
Case Study: Pan Am 806
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Air travel in the modern era is by far the safest method of travel in the world—until it isn’t. But how would you know? Go behind the scenes as government oversight, rogue airline culture, and profit motives, conspire to erode hard-won safety standards. Dive into the core of a rogue airline’s pilot culture and profit motives, and, at the same time, the undercover struggle of dedicated regulatory whistleblowers. Whiskey Air is a hard-hitting call to action, a novel based on facts, an eye-opening adventure, and an air travel story that needs to be told—before it’s too late.
New book: Whiskey Air
An Index of Previous Updates
If you remember seeing something on "Homeplate" in the last two years, you will find it here, in a list of recent lead stories. Lead Stories . . .
