Segundos para el Desastre

Synopsis of SECONDS TO DISASTER

As with the tragedies of Air France Flight 447 or Spanair Flight 5022, airline accidents are more often than not a confluence of events - a cascade of bad luck, bad decisions, inappropriate airline policies, the failure of regulators and, sometimes, lack of training, or a combination of all of them. Seconds to Disaster demonstrates that the bad luck part is often aided by airlines' relentless and aggressive pursuit of profit at all costs, which contributes to the decrepit erosion of safety standards and puts the lives of both passengers and crews at serious risk. These revelations are made in the hope that the resulting debate will contribute to making air travel a safe experience for all. Seconds to Disaster not only generates and answers questions such as why accidents happen, but offers solutions as to how they can be prevented. And it explores the contentious issue of which parts of the airline industry and the global regulators responsible for overseeing the industry contribute to playing dice with passengers' lives, through negligence and collusion.