Aviation Disasters

This second edition provides an account of each major air disaster since 1950 including the date, location, operator, aircraft type, any flight information available, and the cause if known. It records 1994 disasters such as major crashes in Nagoya, Japan, and in Pittsburgh and Indiana, USA.

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This second edition provides an account of each air disaster including the date, location, operator, aircraft type, any flight information available, and the cause if known. It records 1994 disasters such as major crashes in Nagoya, Japan, and in Pittsburgh and Indiana, USA. Reports from Airclaims CIS on major crashes in the USSR in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s which were not published by the media at the time, are included here. The book also recounts the technological advances made as a result of particular aviation disasters.