Safer Skies: An Accident Investigator on Why Planes Crash and the State of Aviation Safety

The past and future of airline safety—a memoir of successes, crashes, and near misses—by a former FAA accident inspector.

Boarding an airplane strikes at least a small sense of fear into most people. Even though we all have heard that the odds of being struck by lightning are greater than the odds of perishing in a plane crash, it still doesn’t feel that way. Airplane crashes might be rare, but they do happen, and they’re usually fatal. David Soucie insists that most of these deaths could be...