William Langewiesche

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William Langewiesche (2009)

William Langewiesche [ lɑŋɡəviːʃə ] (born June 12, 1955 ) is an American writer and journalist .

He graduated from Stanford University in 1974 with a degree in anthropology and worked in New York as the editor of Flying magazine . After training as a pilot, he flew commercial aircraft until 1990. His father, Wolfgang Langewiesche, was also a pilot and published the standard work Stick and Rudder in 1944 . An Explanation of the Art of Flying . In the early 1990s, Langewiesche published first reports in the New York Times and in the Atlantic . He wrote about the Sahara, the clean-up work on Ground Zero, the green zone in Baghdad and - since 2006 as a correspondent for Vanity Fair - about the Camorra in Scampia .

Since 2019 he has been the writer at large for the New York Times Magazine . His first article appeared on September 18, 2019, an in-depth treatise on the two Boeing 737 MAX plane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia . Langewiesche also lists the manufacturer's failures on the one hand, but puts forward the thesis that both the airlines and their pilots have failed on many points. Not the MCAS, but a chain of wrong decisions led to the serious crashes. The pilot Chesley B. Sullenberger , who had tested the MCAS software himself in a simulator, clearly contradicted Langewiesche in a letter to the NYT publisher: “I know firsthand what challenges the pilots faced on the flights that ultimately crashed and how it is wrong to reproach them for not being able to compensate for such a dangerous and deadly design. "

Works

  • Aloft: Thoughts on the Experience of Flight. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York City 2010, ISBN 0-307-74148-6 .
  • Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York City 2009, ISBN 0-307-74148-6 .
  • The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York City 2007, ISBN 0-374-10678-9 .
  • The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime. North Point Press, New York City 2004, ISBN 0-86547-581-4 .
  • American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center. North Point Press, New York City 2001, ISBN 0-86547-582-2 .
  • Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight. Pantheon Books, New York City 1998, ISBN 0-679-42983-2 .
  • Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert. Pantheon Books, New York City 1996, ISBN 0-679-42982-4 .
  • Cutting for Sign. Pantheon Books, New York City 1996, ISBN 0-679-41113-5 .

Publication in German

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.newnewjournalism.com/bio.php?last_name=langewiesche
  2. ↑ So what do you do, William Langewische , interview with mediabistro, July 25, 2007
  3. ^ William Langewiesche: What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max? , NYT Magazine, September 18, 2019, accessed October 13, 2019 (in the updated October 11, 2019 issue)
  4. ↑ Simple Flying: Captain Sully Labels Boeing 737 MAX's MCAS “Fatally Flawed Design” , article by Henry Bewicke, October 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Langewiesche, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1955