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Sub title: Aircrash aftermath: a true story
By: Cor ten Hove
With the collaboration of: Prof. Sandy McFarlane (University of Adelaide), Prof. Berthold Gersons (AMC, University of Amsterdam), Menno van Duin (COT, The Hague), Werner Overdijk (Crisisplan, Leiden) & Vina Wijkhuijs (University of Tilburg)
ORDER INFORMATION Hard cover: €25.00 Soft cover: €15.00 ISBN: 90 5850 495 6 ISBN: 90 5850 166 3 256 p. 256 p. Shipment costs not includedYou can order this book directly with me via cortenhove(at)hotmail.com, or via one of my agents: UK: The Book Bungalow World wide affordable shipping costsE: BookB@clara.net
Portugal: Algarve Book Cellar
NL: Utz Verzendantiquariaat E: info@utz.nl
BOOK CONTENT December 21, 1992: Disaster strikes Faro, Portugal. A Dutch Martinair DC-10 (owned by the Dutch Airforce and operated by Martinair) crashes at the airport leaving many passengers and crew members dead or wounded. Cor ten Hove, the author of this book, is a passenger on that plane. He survives, but his life will never be the same. In this book he describes the plane crash and the impact it has on his life ever since. He has had to deal with, and is still dealing with problems relating to health care, insurance, legal cases, financial concerns, employment, interactions with government bureaucracies, and much more. The surveys included in this book, conducted among survivors and relatives of the victims of the Faro air disaster, show that this is not the story of one man. It’s not even the story of only Faro air disaster survivors. Unfortunately it’s the story of many individuals who have found the path to recovery littered with unanticipated obstacles. Modern society, its institutions and legal systems are poorly prepared to deal with complicated situations that persist in the long term. If a situation is too complex and lasts too long, the institutions in question increasingly seem to insist that the individual just needs to get over it and move on. The The imperative is to face what this story says about the limited ability of societal systems to meet their obligations to the individuals who constitute society. The first step towards achieving this is to develop greater social awareness of the effects of disasters, so that inter-related effects are not treated as unrelated problems.
SOME REACTIONS TO THE ORIGINAL DUTCH VERSION: “I finished reading the book. It’s not a pathetic story of a survivor, but a documented report of a seemingly endless, very painful journey. The lack of coordination, cooperation, and especially understanding is incomprehensible. And then to think that the author was not by any means the only one who suffered like this. However, the –many- others have not put it in writing.” (A reaction of a relative of one of the deceased of the Faro disaster).
“This is a horrifying book. After a short report on the crash of the Martinair DC-10 at Faro airport on December 21, 1992, Cor ten Hove describes in extremely penetrating fashion the effects of that accident on him and his spouse.” (United wings, magazine for the Dutch Historical Aviation, May 2003).
“The crisis after the disaster is a unique work in several ways. Never before have the medical, social an societal effects of a disaster been described in such detail by a survivor.” (Reformatorisch Dagblad, December 20, 2002).
This book is a discomforting but highly worthwhile read, with a hopeful ending. Cor ten Hove formulates 13 lessons for himself and others that have helped him reassemble the pieces of his life.” (Newsletter of the Dutch Traffic Victims Association).
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