Aviation Disasters (4th edition)

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(2007), "Aviation Disasters (4th edition)", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 79 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2007.12779cae.002

Aviation Disasters (4th edition)

Aviation Disasters (4th edition)

Meticulously researched and using pictures from around the world, this is the new edition of the authoritative work on the grim but important story of air disasters from the 1950 up to 2006.

Flying as an airline passer 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.

David Gero covers nearly 300 air catastrophes involving major loss of life and has obtained reports from all across the globe to ensure accuracy.

Aviation Disasters includes not only famous incidents, but also others that are less well know but still significant.

This book is fully revised and updated with new catastrophes as well as new details on past events. This uniquely comprehensive survey explores improvements in safety and the harsh lessons that have been learned.

David Gero investigates every type of calamity, including those caused by appalling weather, mechanical failure, pilot error, inhospitable terrain and hostile action. This easy to use reference guide features an encyclopaedic review of each account, many dramatic colour photographs and a helpful glossary.

The first incident of sabotage involving a commercial jetliner is described, as is the first, much-feared crash of the jumbo jet era. Alongside less well-known disasters, the author examines high- profile incidents such as that of the downing of Pan American Flight 103 by a bomb at Lockerbie in 1988, the Concorde crash at Paris in July 2000 and the terrorist attack against the USA on 11 September 2001.

The author explains how these tragedies have affected the development of new technologies to help civil aviation authorities minimise risk in the future. Sophisticated control, navigation and safety aids have now become available to airlines, many as a direct result of the recommendations from investigating boards.

Aviation Disasters is the authoritative record of air disasters world-wide, and is supported by a comprehensive selection of black and white, and colour photographs.

David Gero started his collection of air disaster reports at the age of 13. Since, then, he has gathered information on many thousands of incidents, involving all lands of aircraft and from many different countries. He is the author of Flights of Terror and Military Aviation Disasters.

Details available from: Haynes Publishing, Tel: +44 (0) 1963 440635; Fax: +44 (0) 1963 440001; web site: www.haynes.com