Flights of No Return: Aviation History's Most Infamous One-Way Tickets to Immortality

Book as described. A good collection of stories. A very good read.

"Flights of No Return" is an interesting overview of several aviation tragedies and strange occurences. Some incidents will be familiar to most readers, while many may be new. The chapters are brief, so "students" of the subject will probably want to seek more detailed information about each incident after reading Ruffin's book, but even for those readers, Ruffin's work is a well-written and engaging "starting-off-point" to learn about some of the ill-fated flights that are recounted in it.

This is a pretty solid read on flights that left and never came back. Not all the flights are "mysterious" ones, although there is a good assortment of them. If you've read a decent amount on the subject, you're going to find many of the "usual suspects" show up - Amelia Earhart, Major Glenn Miller, DB Cooper (although technically that flight did land), and the Avengers of Flight 19.Other flights include the Red Baron's last flight, JFK Jr, the Challenger disaster, a Swedish attempt to balloon to the North Pole, Flight 93 on September 11, the DC-3 shootdown that killed Leslie Howard, the soccer team in the Andes (subject of Alive), Eastern Airlines Flight 401, a Liberator that crashed in the African desert, and MH 370.The author limits himself to published materials, so if you've read about any of these, there's not new material. Some of the flights I was not familiar with. The writing is solid, and I would definitely recommend this to anyone who's just starting their interest in the subject - or who just can't resist one more book about flights that never came home.

Good book. More detail on some know events and some not so well known. I enjoyed it.

This is a fascinating read. As the author explains, it does not offer any new information or discoveries. It does however provide a cornucopia of known, but seldom reported, details regarding each flight. These details coupled with other people's "expert" opinions can lead you to draw what may be a best case scenario as to what "likely" happened or what "likely" was the best contributing factor to each tragic event.