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The deliberate crashes of the aforementioned American Airlines Flight 11, as well as United Airlines Flight 175 at the World Trade Center, and the subsequent collapse of both towers on 11 September 2001 caused 2,606 ground fatalities in addition to the deaths of the 157 people on board both flights, making it the deadliest aviation disaster in ...
Airframe is a novel by the American writer Michael Crichton, his eleventh under his own name and twenty-first overall, first published in 1996, in hardcover, by Knopf, just months after the crash of Tarom Flight 371. As a paperback, Airframe was released in 1997 by Ballantine Books.
Final Flight; Firefox (novel) Firefox Down; Five Weeks in a Balloon; The Flight Attendant (novel) Flight from the USSR; A Flight of Chariots; Flight of Eagles; Flight of the Eagle (novel) Flight of the Intruder (novel) Flight of the Old Dog; The Flight of the Phoenix (novel) Flying Blind (novel) The Flying Girl; Forse che sì forse che no; The ...
Derek Lundy (born December 14, 1946) is a Northern Ireland-born Canadian author. [1] His first published book was Scott Turow: Meeting the Enemy.He achieved bestseller status with his second work, Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters, an account of the harrowing 1996 Vendée Globe round the world single-handed sailing race.
AirlineRatings.com has released its annual report on which airlines are the safest and pointing out those best not traveled. They've declared Qantas as having the best record, just as they did ...
The Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 formally defines an aviation accident as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place from the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until all such persons have disembarked, and in which (a) a person is fatally or seriously injured, (b) the aircraft sustains significant damage or ...
A couple of years ago, the Economist declared on its cover that Taiwan — a tiny island, home to 24 million people — was “the most dangerous place on Earth.” The reasons it came to that ...
Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed in 1974 at a time when most of the airlines that were listed did not even exist, such as JetBlue Airways which was founded in 1999, and other regional companies with less flight frequency. [citation needed] JACDEC's 2013 report was heavily criticized by Air India, after it was named as the 3rd least safest ...