"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
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I had much the same experience when flying back to Indiana for my mother's
funeral....and I had just read "The Rise and Fall of the DC-10," which
dealt directly with a cargo door. Maybe I was suicidal, but I didn't have
the luxury of time to take another flight.

Regarding books on aviation "incidents", I discovered a way to get people
staring at you and muttering to each other. A few years ago we flew with KLM
from my home airport in the UK, via Amsterdam, to the US. In a bookshop at
the Amsterdam transfer gate I spotted a book of cockpit voice recorder
("black box") transcripts from well-known aviation accidents. Actually it
was hard to miss, as the cover was black and day-glo orange stripes (a bit
like the actual black box, I guess).

So I bought it and read it on the flight over the Atlantic. Oh, the weird
looks I got from some people ...

David C