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Air crash.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Weston Creek, A.C.T.: Aerospace Publications, 1991Description: 2 v.: ill., facsims, maps, portsISBN:
  • 0958797897
  • 1875671013
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 629.130994
Contents:
Subject: Australia's air routes today are as safe as it is humanly possible to make them. But these standards have been hard won. Again and again as our early airlines sought to build safe and efficient air services, they were overtaken by disaster. The author's two volume "Air Crash" details the way these successive airline accidents over the years forged Australia's world renowned airways system. Volume 1 recounts the accidents involved with the developments between the wars - the learning curve for Australia's pioneer airlines. Volume 2, meanwhile, covers the period from the outbreak of World War 2 to the date of Australia's last major airline disaster in 1980. It also examines several "might have beens" in which loss of life was narrowly averted, and concludes with a discussion of controversial air safety issues today
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At foot of v.1 cover title: This exciting book details each of Australia's major air accidents in the years 1921 to 1939 and reveals the lessons learnt from each disaster... lessons that today make Australia's airways amongst the safest in the world

At foot of v.2 cover title: This exciting book details each of Australia's major air accidents from 1940 onwards and reveals the lessons learnt from each disaster. Lessons that today make Australia's airways among the safest in the world.

Cover subtitle: the story of how Australia's airways were made safe

Vol. 1: 1921-39

Australia's air routes today are as safe as it is humanly possible to make them. But these standards have been hard won. Again and again as our early airlines sought to build safe and efficient air services, they were overtaken by disaster. The author's two volume "Air Crash" details the way these successive airline accidents over the years forged Australia's world renowned airways system. Volume 1 recounts the accidents involved with the developments between the wars - the learning curve for Australia's pioneer airlines. Volume 2, meanwhile, covers the period from the outbreak of World War 2 to the date of Australia's last major airline disaster in 1980. It also examines several "might have beens" in which loss of life was narrowly averted, and concludes with a discussion of controversial air safety issues today

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