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Air Disasters is not a comprehensive survey of crashes and catastrophies—it looks at 20 of the most significant crashes in the last 30 years: from the 1972 crash of a Turkish Airlines DC-10 to the fatal plunge of a Swissair flight off the waters of Nova Scotia….

Investigations into crashes often lead to significant changes in air safety. The China Airlines’ crash of 1994 in Nagoya, Japan prompted major overhauls to crew training procedures. But, at times no amount of research can lead to a conclusive cause of a crash.