Fatal Words: Communication Clashes and Aircraft Crashes [Audiobook] download free by Steven Cushing
- Listen audiobook: Fatal Words: Communication Clashes and Aircraft Crashes
- Author: Steven Cushing
- Release date: 1997/11/29
- Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780226132013
- Rating: 8.76 of 10
- Votes: 379
- Review by: Alaya Burks
- Review rating: 9.98 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/13
- Duration: 2H12M44S in 256 kbps (35.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-15
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, Shorten, WAV, FLAC, WMA, MP3 (compression RAR, ZIP, DEB, ISO, ARC)
- Total pages original book: 176
- Includes a PDF summary of 20 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 15M42S (4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: On March 27, 1977, 583 people died when KLM and Pan Am 747s collided on a crowded, foggy runway in Tenerife, the Canary Islands. The cause was a miscommunication between the pilot and the air traffic controller. The pilot radioed, 'We are now at takeoff,' meaning that the plane was lifting off, but the tower controller misunderstood and thought the plane was waiting on the runway. In' Fatal Words', Steven Cushing explains how miscommunication has led to dozens of aircraft disasters, and he proposes innovative solutions for preventing them. He examines ambiguities in language when aviation jargon and colloquial English are mixed, when a word is used that has different meanings, and when different words are used that sound alike. To remedy these problems, Cushing proposes a visual communication system and a computerized voice mechanism to help clear up confusing language. This is an accessible explanation of some of the most notorious aircraft tragedies of our time, and it should appeal to scholars in communications, linguistics and cognitive science, to aviation experts and to general readers.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Transport Industries, Aircraft, Communication Studies, Physiological & Neuro-psychology, Biopsychology, Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Aerospace & Air Transport Industries, Safety In The Home
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 44.36 USD
- Dimensions: 137x215x15.24mm
- Weight: 240g
- Printed by: University of Chicago Press
- Published in: Chicago, IL, United States
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