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Thirty Seconds to Impact: The Captain's Story of Flight BA38 by Maria Burkhill, Peter Burkhill (Paperback, 2010)
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When Peter took charge of the flight deck of the 777 and took off from Beijing airport, there was nothing to suggest that this trip would be anything other than a routine flight of the sort he had made so many times before. It was not until moments before landing that anything went wrong. Coming in to Heathrow Airport, the plane suffered inexplicable loss of power to both engines, and it was suddenly likely that the plane would plough into a built-up area outside the airport, with the loss of all lives on board. Peter tells us in graphic detail his thoughts and actions when he managed to help save the plane at the last moment thanks to a flash of inspiration that led him to change the position of the wing flaps, which appeared to gain the vehicle enough precious time to make it over the perimeter fence and land on the grass, short of the runway. For both Maria and Peter, their lives following the crash have resulted in experiences that they never would have expected to have happened. There isn't a handbook with rules to follow after a crash so the subsequent aftermath was laced with events that could have been handled better from all sides, which lead to Maria and Peter having to find strength inside them that they had never needed before. A little more than a year later, they have used these strengths to begin a new chapter in their lives; starting with leaving British Airways and celebrating a second chance to enjoy life. But there are still nights when they find themselves awake, crying about what could have happened on that fateful day.Product Identifiers
PublisherAuthorhouse
ISBN-139781449088583
eBay Product ID (ePID)27046616726
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Book TitleThirty Seconds to Impact: the Captain's Story of Flight Ba38
AuthorMaria Burkhill, Peter Burkhill
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicAircraft
Publication Year2010
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages340 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height203mm
Item Width127mm
Item Weight371g
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Title_AuthorMaria Burkhill, Peter Burkhill
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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- 14 Oct, 2022
A good read but lacking technical detail.
I am passionately interested in all subjects aviation and I remember this incident well: it was a major thing to have a British Airways passenger jet crash at Heathrow. This book, by Peter Burkill and his wife Maria, tells the story of the social aftermath of the crash and how it affected them: it would seem that Peter's employers didn't treat him as well as they should have done, leaving him and his wife hurt and out of pocket in a big way. The comparison is made with the treatment of the flight crew of US Airways flight 1549 after it was brought down in the Hudson river. What I found lacking in this book was technical detail about the cause of the crash: there is a brief explanation about icing of the aircraft's fuel but nothing about how it was discovered or the official enquiry into this. Other than that it was a good read and it kept up late for a few nights.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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