Flights of No Return: Aviation History's Most Infamous One-Way Tickets to Immortality Hardcover – July 10, 2015

"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.

This book may be of some interest to someone who is a total stranger to aviation history and does not read much news. These flights are mainly well documented news events and very little, if any new information is provided. Anyone who is unfamiliar with the events can use this publication as a composite source for reference rather than research each individually, but I think most people who have an interest in aviation will be familiar with most of them.

The Flights of No Return: Aviation History's Most Infamous One-Way Tickets to Immortality is a good overview of flights where people did not return. The Section When Luck Runs Out has lot of relatively new information particularly about the balloon flights. The book also contains a very good bibliography section. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the mysteries of the loss in relationship to flight.

We just bought this book and it is excellent, a must read....once my husband started reading I couldn't get my hands on it until he was done and all he could do was rave on how well written it is and how he learned many facts....I agree, we plan on buying for our grandson

Physically, the book was a quality product except that the paper had a high sheen level that reflected into the readers eyes. The print was also in a delicate font and further, was a half tone in darkness. This required moving the book or the light source or changing the readers position frequently to be able to read comfortably. The writing was good, but I, as an aviator, was already familiar all of the cases selected.

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.

My friend enjoyed the book thank you so much for the discount too.