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1. Slide 1: New Book Coming Oct 27, 2007 Professor George Bibel
2. Slide 2: \"A good book that explains how and why airplanes can crash … followed by explanations of the science that governed those incidents. The stories read a bit like mysteries… I found myself reading faster, so that I could find out why things happened the way they did. Bibel clearly has a love for all things aeronautical and that shines through on every page.“ — John M. Henshaw, author of Does Measurement Measure Up?
3. Slide 3: George Bibel, Ph. D., P. E. Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of North  Dakota Former NASA Summer  Faculty Fellow Graduate; Airline Pilots  Association Advanced Accident Investigation Course Member; American  Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
4. Slide 4: $30.00 Hardcover 384 pages Release: October 27, 2007 http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/9151.html
5. Slide 5: About the book…
6. Slide 6: …Extensive survey of unusual aircraft events and associated physical science. Airline disaster stories are used to teach high school level physics
7. Slide 7: …describes the crash investigation process and resulting safety changes that make flying safer…
8. Slide 8: …and explains the science of safety Computer simulation is used to make planes more crashworthy
9. Slide 9: Surprisingly…
10. Slide 10: … Airplane Crashes are in fact highly survivable!! 446 DC-10’s made  27 Destroyed in crashes  Only 4 had total loss of life  (Terrorist bomb, flew into a mountain and 2 mechanical failures)
11. Slide 11: In the remaining 23 DC-10’s destroyed in crashes… …Even though the plane’s destroyed, sometimes even broken into 2 or 3 sections. 85% of the time 90% of the passengers survived ! What does this mean? Listen to the flight crew! Following instructions!
12. Slide 12: A few examples…
13. Slide 13: United Airlines Flight 232 7-19-89 DC-10 has 3 engines Tail engine bursts… All hydraulics are lost (flaps, rudder, ailerons, etc.). Pilots steer by altering engine thrust.
14. Slide 14: Reconstructed compressor fan rotor disk Plane breaks into 3 parts, lands upside down. 74% of 296 survive impact, fire kills additional 12% (111 total fatalities)
15. Slide 15: Explosive decompression… Aloha Airlines Flight 243 4-28-88 One flight attendant lost, all passengers have seatbelts on and survive with injuries. (Popped ear drums, concussion, broken arm, etc.)
16. Slide 16: The plane popped like a balloon.  The analogy is exactly correct. Many  balloon experiments (and many other simple experiments) are described.
17. Slide 17: Passenger sucked out of this window Pilot partially sucked out of left windscreen British Airways Flight 5390 6-10-90 National Airlines Flight 27 11-3-73
18. Slide 18: Everyone safely evacuates in under 2 minutes despite half the exits blocked by fire Air France Flight 358 8-2-05
19. Slide 19: The most studied, instrumented, and photographed crash in history FAA/NASA Test Crash 12-1-84
20. Slide 20: United Airlines Flight 232 Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO6tt0PrKGs (Part simulated for TV, and part actual footage) Aloha Airlines Flight 243 Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCuAS5C4q-c http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid =-3033260135965188182&q=%22aloha+Flight+243%22+decompression& search&plindex=0 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6976968234725890098&q =aloha+%22flight+243%22&total=13&start=0&num=10&so=0&typ e=search&plindex=2 FAA/NASA/ Test Crash Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TrOA9WiUWs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQaY49cvHYI http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid =8019880304111953321&q=CID+nasa