Ernest K. Gann's 1961 memoir of his years as a commercial airline pilot — examining accidents, close calls, and the irreducible role of chance (fate) in aviation — considered the greatest aviation memoir ever written.
Creates the philosophical account of risk in aviation — Gann's argument that however skilled and careful you are, fate plays a decisive role in survival is both a memoir of early airline flying and a meditation on chance, preparation, and mortality.
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