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100 ВЕЛИКИХ АВИАКАТАСТРОФ

Bibliographic Description

100 великих авиакатастроф. – М. : Вече, 2004. – (100 великих). – ISBN 5-9533-0029-8.

Publisher
Вече
Year of publication
2004
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

Alongside outstanding achievements, world aviation history also has not a few sorrowful pages. Man's striving to rise into the air and even break through into space has always been fraught with enormous risk. One might say that the mournful list on the path to mastering the "fifth ocean" opens with the mythical Icarus. Disasters have occurred with hot-air balloons, airships and aircraft of all kinds. Scientists, presidents, ministers, diplomats and even entire sports teams have perished in air crashes. The sky actively takes the lives of those professionally connected with aviation as well, among them the pilot Valery Chkalov, the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and the world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The causes were varied: weather conditions, incompetence and negligence, tragic errors, terrorist acts. I.A. Muromov's book tells of the air disasters that shook humanity most in the late 19th to early 21st centuries: from the crash of the balloon "Zenith" on April 15, 1875, to the loss of the shuttle "Columbia" on February 1, 2003.

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