Air disasters
By: John Hawkins
Series: Catastrophe!
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781445110158
Subjects: Aircraft accidents; Juvenile literature; Disasters
Description: "This book investigates modern and historical air crashes and looks at why events unfolded as they did. It also examines the safety measures that have been put in place to try to ensure that such disasters never happen again."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index.

Key Stage 3.
Table of contents: title: What happens in an air crash?; title: The 9/11 Hijacking, 2001; title: The Tenerife collision, 1977; title: Antarctic volcano collision, 1979; title: America's worst air crash, 1979; title: Sucked into the air, Paris, 1974; title: Indian collision, 1996; title: Lake Constance collision, 2002; title: Kinshasa crash, 1996; title: Mid-Atlantic crash, 1996; title: Concorde disaster, 2000; title: The Hindenburg disaster, 1937; title: Mountain crash, 1985; title: Looking to the future; title: Timeline.