Last weekend, I got to the Gold Coast airport for my flight out to Newcastle and remembered I’d forgotten something to read. They had a very small bookstore in the newsagency so I thought I’d have a browse through the shelf for something to read on the plane. They had a pretty small range and their prices were what you would expect of an airport store so needless to say I didn’t buy a book and opted for a magazine instead.
But I digress. Among the travel literature books available, I found the title Air Disasters: Dramatic Black Box Flight Recordings by Malcolm MacPherson. Either someone has a sense of ironic humour or it’s part of a standard shipment to all newsagencies but I was amused by the presence of that title in particular in an airport. Surely, that’s the kind of stuff you really don’t want to be reading when you’re 30 000 feet above sea level and flying in something that looks by outward appearances as though it has no business being in the air at all. I’m not remotely afraid of flying, I quite enjoy it actually. I even watch the TV shows with explicit details on how different flight disasters have occurred with no real fear that it would happen to a flight that I was on.
Having said that, could I sit happily reading about dramatic flight recordings at 30 000 feet?? No….I think I’ll pass and stick to the Cosmo. 
I wonder how many people actually buy this. It was the only copy left!