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description: 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.
language: English
title: Aviation Disasters: The World's Major Civil Airliner Crashes Since 1950
publisher: Motorbooks Intl