About Sylvia

SYLVIA WRIGLEY is a pilot and aviation writer who has been obsessing about aviation safety for over a decade.

Her aviation books include her personal memoir, You Fly Like a Woman, the first detailed book released about The Mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight 370, and her popular aviation investigation series, Why Planes Crash.

Her non-fiction has appeared in publications all over the world, including The Guardian, Piper Flyer and Forbes.

She has appeared as an aviation expert for the BBC and on National Geographic’s Mayday. She has also featured in episodes of the Discovery Channel series Air Crash Confidential, the Russian Channel 1 news, French Channel M6 Disparition du vol MH370 and ntv.ru Central Television program.

She is the creator and sole contributor to the aviation website Fear of Landing which received almost half a million visitors in 2019 and continues to be a leading aviation resource.


Sylvia also writes science fiction and fantasy. If you are interested in her fiction, please visit her author page at https://intrigue.co.uk. If you’d like to sign up for her narrative series, Accidents and Incidents, you can sign up via Substack or Patreon.

If you would like to find out more about Sylvia, please email her directly at [email protected]