Safer Skies: An Accident Investigator on Why Planes Crash and the State of Aviation Safety

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The past and future of airline safety--a memoir of successes, crashes, and near misses--by a former FAA accident inspector. Boarding an airplane strikes at least a small sense of fear into most people. Even though we all have heard that the odds of being struck by lightning are greater than the odds of perishing in a plane crash, it still doesn't f

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David Soucie is the owner of Sans Souci Enterprises, LLC, a disaster recovery company based in Silverthorne, Colorado. He also works with CNN as a safety analyst and with the Federal Aviation Administration as a member of the Safety Management Implementation (SMI) Committee and serves on the Safety Management Systems Focus Group in Washington, DC. Previously, he was an aviation safety inspector at the FAA and, before that, served as the senior director of technical services for Air Methods Inc., one of the largest helicopter emergency medical operations in the world. He resides in Lakewood, Colorado.

Ozzie Cheek is a writer, producer, and published short-story author.