Kegworth Air Disaster (2807 bytes)
1: ...]], [[Leicestershire]], close to the village of [[Kegworth]].
5: ...aft was unable to reach the emergency destination airport, and hit the ground short of the runway while...
9: ...ions for passengers. The official report into the disaster made 31 safety recommendations.
11: ... operation", in the village cemetery in nearby [[Kegworth]], together with a garden made using soil from th...
14: ... [[Lists of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners]]

Munich air disaster (2694 bytes)
1: ... on its third attempt to take off from [[Munich]] airport.
5: ...s on board the aircraft lost their lives in the [[disaster]].
66: * [[List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners]]
75: [[Category:Accidents and incidents on commercial airliners]]

Manchester air disaster (1830 bytes)
1: ...ort on the Greek island of [[Corfu|Kerkira]]. The aircraft, known by the company as River Orrin, had 13...
7: ==Impact on air safety==
8: ...serious [[air safety]] concerns over the standard aircraft emergency evacuation time of ninety seconds,...
11: * [[List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners]]
13: [[Category:Accidents and incidents on commercial airliners]]

Staines air disaster (3205 bytes)
1: ...crashed two minutes after takeoff from [[Heathrow Airport]], killing all 118 passengers and crew on boa...
3: ...the [[Lockerbie disaster]] of [[1988]], the worst aircrash to have occurred on British soil.
5: ...m which there was no possibility of recovery. The aircraft rapidly descended in a high nose-up attitude...
7: ...dy had moved the droop retraction lever while the aircraft was at too low a speed, but it was impossibl...
9: ...accident could not be determined, but the AAIB ([[Air Accidents Investigation Branch]]) made a series o...

Stockport Air Disaster (997 bytes)
1: The '''Stockport Air Disaster''' occurred at around 10am on Sunday the 4th of J...
3: ...o Ringway Airport (now [[Manchester International Airport]]) when its engines lost power due to pump fa...
18: '''''STOCKPORT AIR DISASTER'''''<br/>
22: [[Category:Accidents and incidents on commercial airliners]]

Dominicana DC-9 air disaster (2706 bytes)
1: ...cana de Aviacion]] [[Santo Domingo]] [[DC-9]] air disaster''' occurred on [[February 15]], [[1970]].
3: ...]]. It took off from [[Las Americas International Airport]] in [[Punta Caucedo]], near Santo Domingo, a...
5: ...l 97 passengers and five crew members died in the air crash into the [[Caribbean Sea]], for a total of ...
9: ...as almost brand new, having been delivered to the airline from the [[McDonnell Douglas]] factory in [[1...
11: ...er Las Americas or Luis Munoz Marin International Airports.

1960 New York air disaster (1084 bytes)
1: ...orst [[airplane]] crashes in history, killing 127 air passengers and five more on the ground. It occur...
3: ...n F. Kennedy International Airport]]), a [[United Airlines]] [[DC-8]] from [[Chicago]] collided with a ...

KLM Constellation air disaster 1948 (6348 bytes)
1: The '''[[KLM]] [[Lockheed Constellation]]''' airplane ''Nijmegen'' (identification PH-TEN) crashed...
5: ...ork]] via Prestwick, with [[Shannon International Airport]] in [[Ireland]] as the alternative stopover ...
13: ...icked up the radio message broadcast by Prestwick airfield informing them of this.
15: ...id he know that two airliners from [[Scandinavian Airlines System|SAS]] had already turned back rather ...
23: ...nto high ground five miles east-north-east of the airfield.

Kegworth (520 bytes)
1: ...he airport, it was the site of the [[Kegworth air disaster]] in [[1989]].

List of NATO reporting names for air-to-air missiles (586 bytes)
1: ...ting name]]s for [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[air-to-air missile]]s'''

Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators (551 bytes)
1: ...ild is responsible for advising the government on air safety and aeronautics.
7: * [http://www.gapan.org/ The Air Pilots' and Air Navigators' Guild]

Croatian air and air defense forces (1275 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hrz.jpg|right|Emblem of the Air Force and Defence]]
3: '''Croatian Air Force and Defense''' (Croatian: Hrvatsko ratno zr...
5: ...m. This double role of the Croatian Air Force and Air Defence is realized with the following main tasks...
7: # Inspection and control of the air space security
8: # Predominance in Croatian air space, over land and sea, with defence and attack...

Air Force Air Commandos (3983 bytes)
1: ...r the [[U.S._Air_Force_Special_Operations_Command|Air Force Special Operations Command]] or AFSOC, a br...
3: ...ol at Ft. Benning, USAF Basic Survival School at Fairchild AFB, and U.S. Army's Military Free Fall Para...
9: ...lso control air attacks of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft from all military services.
11: Their training includes Air Traffic Control School at Keesler AFB, Combat Con...
29: '''Combat weathermen''' are airmen that gather and interpret [[Meteorology|metero...

List of United States Air Force air force component commands (1207 bytes)
1: ...ered air forces had a status currently enjoyed by Air Force major commands.
7: * [[III Air Support Command]]
18: * [[VIII Air Support Command]]
21: * [[IX Air Defense Command]]
23: * [[IX Tactical Air Command]]

Disaster (8686 bytes)
1: A '''disaster''' is a [[natural disaster|natural]] or man-made event that negatively affec...
3: ... in a bad position (based on [[astrology]]), a ''"disaster"'' is about to happen.
5: Disasters may be called different things depending upon th...
7: ...Insurance specialists use this phrase to denote a disaster beyond actuarial expectations.
8: * '''[[crisis]]''' – Disaster Management and Information Security specialists u...

Bhopal disaster (10586 bytes)
1: ...isaster''' of [[1984]] was the worst [[industrial disaster]] in the history of the world. It was caused by t...
7: ==Factors leading to the disaster==
10: ...e of the gas, thus hampering treatment, and basic disaster management measures (such as blocking all gaps wi...
18: ... $470 million for damages it caused in the Bhopal disaster. (The original lawsuit was for USD 3 billion.)
24: ...ea feel betrayed not only by Union Carbide (and chairman Warren Anderson), but also by their own politi...

Wahine disaster (6916 bytes)
3: ...''Wahine'' is by far the most well known shipping disaster in New Zealand's history, although there have bee...
23: Today the [[Wahine Memorial Park]] marks the disaster, near where survivors reached the eastern shore a...
27: *Max Lambert and Jim Hartley, The Wahine Disaster (1969)
28: *Kevin Boon, The Wahine Disaster, Petone, N.Z. : Nelson Price Milburn, 1990. ISBN ...
29: ...or those who wish to do serious research into the disaster.

Escuminac Disaster (3284 bytes)
1: The '''Escuminac Disaster''' is the name given for a rare [[June]] [[tropic...
7: ... to rescuers from the community, [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] (from [[RCAF Station Chatham]] and [[RCAF...
9: ...rawls and lobster traps lost or damaged beyond repair.
11: ...the victim of [[Springhill Mining Disaster|mining disasters]] in [[1956]] and [[1958]], sent 2 tons of food ...
15: Today, the ''Escuminac Disaster Monument'' sits as a memorial on the shores of Es...

Summerland disaster (2140 bytes)
1: The '''Summerland Disaster''' occurred on the night of [[August 2]], [[1973]...

Kaprun disaster (1118 bytes)
1: ...nnel where the fire occurred after the short open-air section on trestles (seen here). The tunnel entra...
3: '''The Kaprun disaster''' was the result of a fire that broke out in the...

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