Angela Waller, who was an air hostess in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was considered a glamorous and highly sought-after job, tells everything you ever wanted to know about what went on in the golden age of passenger flying. In this fascinating book, she shares her experiences and tells stories from the hilarious to the harrowing, the factual to the funny, about the famous and the gossip. And she tells how very different things were, back in the those days before there were trolley dollies.

Winner of the prestigious Cecil A. Brownlow Publication Award for 2014, awarded by the Flight Safety Foundation, for significant contributions by journalists to aviation safety awareness, this is a true story. All the incidents and events depicted herein, are dramatizations of actual events that have occurred and are based on official investigation reports issued by the relevant government authorities for information, and use of the public. Information about the flight IX812, Air India, Air India Express, Airports Authority of India, DGCA and Mangalore Airport was obtained through a series of petitions filed under the Right to Information Act. Some names have been modified to protect the concerned individual's privacy, however, neither the events, nor their dates have been modified. This is a book that has something for everybody. To a reader of fiction, it presents an exciting, fast paced story. To managers in any high-risk industry, it provides professional knowledge and case studies that help focus attention on what needs to be done in order to remain safe. To an air traveler, it furbishes information that one must look for while selecting a carrier, by providing information on how to detect a carrier's lack of Safety Risk Management. To an employee in the aviation industry it presents the importance of each, seemingly minor and innocuous task of aviation safety. To the average citizen, it provides questions that must be asked of their elected political representatives and civil servants in order to improve the safety performance of airlines and airports; services whose use cannot be avoided in the modern world. To the politicians and civil servants that regulate these services, it offers information that is at once insightful and relevant to their day-to-day work. This information is vital to their delivery of a good service; something that they sincerely want to, yet many do not know how to The readers will be able to use the information contained herein to remain safe and ensure that accidents do not happen, but only remain Waiting ... To Happen

With his new travel guide, The Aviator's Guide to Florida, pilot and author Udo Leinhauser has written the first travel guide specifically for private pilots. In addition to the usual information on flight planning, he addresses the first question most pilots ask after landing at a regional airport for the first time: What is there to do in this area? What most conventional pilot guides leave out, is covered here in detail for 40 select regional airports and airfields in Florida. Each airport location included in the book comes with maps, runway information and radio frequencies. However, Leinhauser has also provided background information on the region, described interesting tourist destinations, outdoor recreational activities, day trip ideas as well as tips on car rentals, restaurants and hotels. As a travel guide for pilots, it also naturally contains useful information on flying in Florida, with descriptions of areas that make for challenging flying, and airports that even the inexperienced pilot will have no problem flying into. With many color photographs and travel tips, pilots and their passengers can better plan their time on the ground to meet everyone's needs and interests. From restaurants in or near the airports during a short stopover to tips on full-day recreational activities, the Aviator's Guide to Florida contains helpful information for planning an interesting and fun-filled vacation in the Sunshine State. The guide includes information on: -Forty regional airports in Florida with a focus on tourist information, including getting around, food and lodging and tourist destinations. -Helpful information on flight planning -Reports and tips that are current and based on first-hand research"