Controlled Crash

Pilots like to say that every safe landing is really just a controlled crash. In this wittyand entertaining memoir of his airline career, Eldon Brown whisks us back to theheyday of the airline industry, when it was fun to fly and salesmanship was a creativeart. During his decades in cargo management with airlines like Japan and Northwest,Brown crosses paths with a surprising array of life forms: wily entrepreneurs, stowawaycockroaches, and, yes, a drunken bear.Along the way, there are challenges