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The Book
Deadly Turbulence: The Air Safety Lessons of Braniff Flight 250 and Other Airliners, 1959-1966 discusses six disasters or near-disasters of the early Jet Age, experiences which shook the industry, regulators and public out of early complacency and helped build a more realistic foundation for safer air transportation.
The airline disasters/incidents covered in Deadly Turbulence include:
• Pan American World Airways flight 115 | 1959
• Northwest Orient Airlines flight 705 | 1963
• United Airlines flight 764 | 1963
• Eastern Air Lines flight 304 | 1964
• Braniff International flight 352 | 1968
The Author
Steve fell in love with airliners at the age of five during a fateful encounter with a brand-new Pan Am 747 in Roswell, NM. He has been a 911 emergency dispatcher and a public school educator, journalist and author. He and his husband and their rescued basset hounds live in Nashville, TN.