Aviation Disasters

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The new edition of this best-seller, the first detailed commercial reference work on aviation disasters, provides a sobering account of more than 250 air catastrophes worldwide involving major loss of life. While bringing this meticulously researched record right up to date, it also revises existing material where new facts have emerged, and includes recently released studies of major crashes in the USSR from the 1950s to the 1980s. The book recounts a positive aspect of these human tragedies too, in terms of the resultant lessons learned and technological advances made. And it demonstrates how relatively safe flying is, considering how many billions of airUne passengers have travelled throughout the world in the past four and a half decades.
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Fülszöveg

JION
AVIATION

The new edition of this best-seller, the first detailed commercial reference work on aviation disasters, provides a sobering account of more than 250 air catastrophes worldwide involving major loss of life. While bringing this meticulously researched record right up to date, it also revises existing material where new facts have emerged, and includes recently released studies of major crashes in the USSR from the 1950s to the 1980s. The book recounts a positive aspect of these human tragedies too, in terms of the resultant lessons learned and technological advances made. And it demonstrates how relatively safe flying is, considering how many billions of airUne passengers have travelled throughout the world in the past four and a half decades.
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When this book, the first detailed commercial reference work on civil aviation disasters, was originally published in 1993 it was an immediate best-seller. Meticulously researched, and supported with pictures from all over the world, it covered the period from 1950 to 1993, recording air calamities of every type -those caused by bad weather, mechanical failure, pilot error, inhospitable terrain, and hostile action.
The second edition now brings the record right up to date. It also revises existing material where new facts have emerged, and includes recently released studies of major crashes in the USSR from the 1950s to the 1980s. Eaoh entry gives the date of the disaster, together with the location, operator, aircraft type, cause if known, and any available details surrounding the crash.
The book covers high profile catastrophes suoh as the Potomac River disaster, the shooting down of Plight 007 by Soviet fighters, and the Lockerbie tragedy, but also featured are a host of others no less painful for being largely lost now to history. It brings out a positive side to the disasters too, however. Many of the sophisticated control, navigational and safety aids now available to airlines have resulted from the recommendations of investigating boards examining the events described here.
David Gero, a television director with a lifetime interest in aeronautics, has collected reports of air crashes since the age of 13. The material for this book came via a number of sources around the world.
Patrick Stephens Limited Vissza