On 4 November 2010, a flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife edge of being one of the world's worst air disasters. Shortly after leaving Changi Airport, an explosion shattered Engine 2 of Qantas flight 0F32 - an Airbus A380, the largest and most advanced passenger plane ever built. Hundreds of pieces of shrapnel ripped through the wing and fuselage, creating chaos as vital flight systems and back-ups were destroyed or degraded.

In other hands, the plane might have been lost with all 469 people on board, but a supremely experienced flight crew (assisted by Four other Pilots total flight experience with nearly 74500 hours total time and 5000 flight time on A380), led by Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny, managed to land the crippled aircraft and safely disembark the passengers after hours of nerve-racking effort.

Tracing Richard's life and career up until that fateful flight, QF32 shows exactly what goes into the making of a top-level airline pilot, and the extraordinary skills end training needed to keep us sate in the air. Fascinating in its detail and vividly compelling in its narrative, 0F32 is the riveting, blow-by-blow story of just what happens when things go badly wrong in the air, told by the captain himself.

A text book Crew Resource Management (CRM) epic

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