David Gero Boeken

Flying as an airline passenger is, statistically one of the safest forms of travel. Even so, the history of civil aviation is littered with high-profile disasters involving major loss of life. This work presents a list of major air disasters since the 1950s from across continents

The world's biggest disasters - the book is divided into chapters each presenting one type of catastrophe : natural ones, e.g. volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunami, epidemic plagues and diseases, e.g. Spanish flue and AIDS, Man-made disasters: atomic bomb, terrorist attacks, Accidents, e.g. explosions, oil pollution and many more

Each year dozens of military aircraft come to grief, ranging from fighters and bombers to trainers and transports. David Gero covers major military disasters worldwide and gives full details of the aircraft involved, its operator, route, location of crash, loss of life, and where known the reason for the crash. The author has undertaken considerable detective work to piece together details of many of the incidents recorded here. In this revised and updated second edition, he has investigated significant military aircraft disasters from 1999 to 2008, including the conflicts in Bosnia, the Second Gulf War and Afghanistan.

Souhrn teroristických akcí v civilním letectví od roku 1930 do současnosti.

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