Freefall: The Needless Destruction of Eastern Air Lines and the Valiant Struggle to Save It
Author: Jack E. Robinson
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ISBN: 0887305563
Publisher: HarperCollins (June, 1992)
Sales Rank: 872,964
Average Customer Rating: 1 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 1 out of 5
I Question if he Even Worked There
This book tries to be an "inside account" of the failure of Eastern Airlines. I picked this book off the sale table and thought I would give it a try, mistake number one. The second mistake was working through 200 pages of the thing until I called uncle and gave up, the third and final mistake is that I still have it in my house - I only hope it does not effect the other books sitting close to it. This diatribe which seamed to me to be written in about 5 hours after an all night drinking binge, is undoubtedly some poor excuse to either claim ideas that were not his or maybe to push blame away from himself. Save your self the time and aggravation and pass on this book.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Eastern Airlines Deserves Better
Robinson's book is without a doubt the worst account of the demise of Eastern Airlines. It's value as history is only matched by Robinson's self-promotion. I suspect all the name-dropping and claims of inventing wonderful ideas that --almost-- saved Eastern are nothing more than an attempt to pave a way for his own corporate future. This book is clearly worthless, as a history of Eastern, as a study of airline failure, or even as an acceptable account of the events surrounding the end of a great airline. If you are a collector of books about commercial aviation, you might want this one on your shelf (your lowest shelf) just for grins, but if you are thinking reading this book will give you some insight into Eastern Airlines, forget it. You'd be better off reading Bernstein's "Grounded"--only marginally better.
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