The book is virtually finished, but with 1,000 entries there are surely things we have got wrong or have put the wrong emphasis on some topic, or even missed something important.
We have therefore decided to create ARCs (not for sale) which besides giving us some advance publicity will if sent to experts will at least enable us to get valuable feedback. We will probably issue the book formally around August 2024.

The book is being proofread. The delay has partly been due to our finding new things all the time and seeing ways to make the book more interesting and readable.

I started work on the first edition of Air Crashes and Miracle Landings when  a 747 of the “safest airline” overran the runway at 100 m.p.h at Bangkok in torrential rain. Luckily the rain had made the ground next to the golf  course beyond so soggy that the wheels sank into it slowing the massive aircraft.

By pure chance I happened to be in countries when headline accidents occurred such as the Turkish Airlines DC-10 in Paris that happened on this very day (#OTD) in 1974.

There were others: Two in Japan, namely the “sightseeing” BOAC 707  near Mount Fuji in 1966, and the worst-ever single aircraft accident, JL123, in 1985.

Being in the country at the time, enabled me to pick up on facts mentioned in the local media, making them more real in my book.