Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology; An Inside Look at Catastrophes and Why They Happen by James R. Chiles

Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology; An Inside Look at Catastrophes and Why They Happen

James R. Chiles

352 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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On July 25, 2000, a small piece of debris on the runway at a Paris airport caused a tire to blow out on an Air France Concorde during its take off. A heavy slab of rubber that spun off from a tire created a shock wave in a wing tank, which burst o...

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