Sites for air safety Site-seeing with
Jan Perry The tragedy of the Egypt-Air crash has our thoughts
focused once again on safety in the skies. These sites have the goods on air
safety and more. http://www.airsafe.com.
This is the comprehensive site on air safety, with the data and
details you need to make an enlightened decision about the safety of airplane
travel. If you like statistics, you'll enjoy what's offered here.
http://www.faa.gov/avr/aai/iirform.htm. Actual incident and
accident reports from throughout the United States. Day-by-day details are
available in a number of categories - from individual manufacturer's crash
rates to any crash with casualties. Interesting reading. http://www.egyptair.com.eg/docs/home.asp. For anyone who wants
to know more about the recent plane that went down or the company it flew for,
this is the home site for EgyptAir. http://awgnet.com.
Aviation Week, a comprehensive online flight magazine, is of interest
to passengers, pilots and airline employees. This well-designed site gives the
goods on nearly every phase of flight. (Plus Lockheed Martin has a great
animated ad.)
http://www.st
artext.net/homes/mikem/index.htm. This is the most used air-safety
resource online. Weather sites, radar links, FAA information, travel warnings
and tons more are all gathered in one convenient spot.
http://
www.letsfindout.com/subjects/browse?aviation. Kids and
grown-ups alike could spend hours and still not see it all: hundreds of photos,
descriptions and historical stories, all about planes. Subjects include Amelia
Earhart to warplanes. http://www.zurqui.com/
crinfocus/paper/airplane.html. Set the serious stuff aside for a
second and build the best paper airplane on (and off) the Net.
Free-lance writer Jan Perry welcomes suggestions for Site-seeing, which
appears Wednesdays and Fridays. Write to her at SiteSeer2K@aol.com.
Publication date: 11-05-99
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