
Last Days of the Concorde
The Crash of Flight 4590 and the End of Supersonic Passenger Travel
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Narrated by:
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Teri Schnaubelt
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By:
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Samme Chittum
The gripping true tale of a devastating plane crash, the investigation into its causes, and the race to prevent similar disasters in the future.
On July 25, 2000, a Concorde, the world's fastest passenger plane, was taking off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris when it suddenly burst into flames. An airliner capable of flying at more than twice the speed of sound, the Concorde had completed 25 years of successful flights, whisking wealthy passengers - from diplomats to rock stars to corporate titans - between continents on brief and glamorous flights. Yet on this fateful day, the chartered Concorde jet, en route to America, crashed and killed all 109 passengers and crew onboard and four people on the ground. Urgent questions immediately arose as investigators scrambled to discover what had gone wrong. What caused the fire? Could it have been prevented? And, most urgently, was the Concorde safe to fly? Last Days of the Concorde addresses these issues and many more, offering a fascinating insider's look at the dramatic disaster, the hunt for clues, and the systemic overhauls that followed the crash.
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Very technical and boring
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nice to have the story in one place
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Overall it's like a 3-out-of-5 book, where you read it and go, meh, what's next. It's neither good or bad, it's just meh.
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A Fair review
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great inside story
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The narrator was almost unbearable: the drawl in her accent, her terrible French prononciation, it was truly painful to listen to her. If it were not for the book itself, I would have returned it after barely an hour of listening. I will never buy a book read by this narrator.
Extraordinary book appalling performance
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Too much fluff
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Teri Schnaubelt's narration grows more irritating as she plods her way through endless lists of measurements rendered at least twice each - once in imperial measure, once again in metric - and occasionally three times as she converts feet to yards or yards to miles.
Clearly, Chittum intended her book to be a definitive source of information on the topic, but perhaps the overwhelming pile of data could have been included in an appendix where it would not have cluttered the narrative with numbers and measurements.
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Go Christian Go!!!!
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