Aviation Disasters (eBook)

The World's Major Civil Airliner Crashes Since 1950

David Gero (Autor)

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2009 | 5. Auflage
384 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7524-9992-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Flying as an airline passenger is, statistically, one of the safest forms of travel. Even so, the history of civil aviation is littered with high-profile disasters involving major loss of life. This new edition of the authoritative work on the subject brings the grim but important story of air disasters right up to date. David Gero assembles a list of major air disasters since the 1950s across continents. He investigates every type of calamity, including those caused by appalling weather, mechanical failure, pilot error, inhospitable terrain and hostile action. The first incident of sabotage involving a commercial jetliner is covered, as is the first, much-feared crash of the jumbo jet era. Examined alongside less well-known disasters are high-profile episodes such as that of Pan American Flight 103 at Lockerbie in 1988, the Twin Towers tragedy of 11 September 2001 and, more recently, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in 2014 - the greatest mystery of the commercial jet age. Aviation Disasters is the authoritative record of air disasters worldwide, fully illustrated with a fascinating selection of photographs.

Autor

DAVID GERO has always had a keen interest in aeronautics, starting his collection of air disaster reports at the age of thirteen. Since then he has gathered information on thousands of incidents, involving all kinds of aircraft and from many different countries.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Cheltenham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: 9/11 • accident • accident|lockerbie • Air crash • air disaster • Airline • Airline Passenger • aviation history • Calamity • Catastrophe • civil airline • civil airliner crashes • Civil Aviation • Crash • disappearance • hostile action • Jetliner • Jumbo Jet • Lockerbie • lockerbie, pan american flight 103, pan am, twin towers, 9/11, malaysia airlines, mh370, disappearance • lockerbie, pan american flight 103, pan am, twin towers, 9/11, malaysia airlines, mh370, disappearance, aviation history, air crash, air disaster, plane crash, catastrophe • Malaysia Airlines • Mechanical failure • mh370 • Pan Am • pan american flight 103 • Pilot Error • plane crash • Sabotage • Terrain • the world's major civil airliner crashes since 1950 • Transport • Travel • travel, airline, airline passenger, transport, civil aviation, civil airline, civil airliner crashes, the world's major civil airliner crashes since 1950, air disaster, calamity, weather, mechanical failure, pilot error, hostile action, terrain, sabotage, jetliner, jumbo jet, crash, accident • Twin Towers • Weather • worlds major civil airliner crashes since 1950
• ISBN-10: 0-7524-9992-0 / 0752499920
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-9992-5 / 9780752499925