Anyone who's ever flown will have had occasional visions of plummeting along with their complimentary peanuts and won't be able to resist the urge to check out the real life roll call. Well if you want to do the same, with a listing of civil air crashes dating back to the beginning of the century, take a look at Major Airline Disasters. Alternatively you could experience both approaches at once with sites such as Air Disaster. Even then, odds are you'd survive. It then goes on to rather spoil that reassurance with a gallery of the top 100 crashes and a selection of sound bites from the flight recorders of doomed craft.
Some people seem to be a little too close to their subject matter for comfort.
Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslett have managed to turn one notable disaster into a high point of glamour so that the sites dedicated to it are competing to outdo themselves in glossiness, as you can see for yourself at the likes of the Sinking. Not that you need the Hollywood treatment to make stars out of disaster. As a result the detailed information and beautiful lay out is almost uncomfortably loving. Sometimes the dramatic differences in the approach to a disaster can be put down to politics. Similarly the story of Mexico's nuclear industry is clearly close to the hearts of those at Greenpeace.