Directory of Aviation Resources

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This category is for sites that provide information related to issues that affect air travelers.

Subcategories

• Accidents
• Air Rage
• Air Safety
• Noise
• Safety Engineering

Resources in This Category

• Air Transport Users Council

  http://www.auc.org.uk/
  Consumer watchdog for the airline industry in the United Kingdom. It advises air travellers on their rights, helps passengers obtain redress where they have been badly treated, and promotes the wider interests of airline passengers.

• Airline Safety

  http://www.airlinesafety.com/
  Dedicated to the subject of airline safety and seeks to provide a forum for the discussion of airline safety policies and issues.

• AirSafe.com

  http://www.airsafe.com/
  Provides useful information for the traveling public, including details of recent fatal accidents involving the major airlines of the world.

• Angel Flight Central

  http://www.angelflightcentral.org/
  Medical and charity air transportation for reasons of compassion or community service. Donor and partner list, local chapters, areas covered, volunteer forms and links.

• Aviation History of Southern California

  http://www.av.qnet.com/~carcomm/wrecks.htm
  Profiles aviation accidents and early aviation history in the United States.

• Flying Safely on the Boeing 777

  http://www.askcaptainlim.com/
  Provides passengers with basic information about flying and air travel. Image gallery, FAQs guest book and links.

• HowStuffWorks: How Black Boxes Work

  http://www.howstuffworks.com/black-box.htm
  Illustrated narrative looks at the two types of black boxes, how they survive crashes and how they are retrieved and analyzed.

• National Safe Skies Alliance

  http://sskies.org/
  An FAA-funded, non-profit, membership-based organization that serves aviation by providing impartial and effective testing and evaluation of safety and security systems.

• NPR : Pondering Today's 'No-Fly' Objects

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4224213
  Essayist Naomi Lewin ponders the variety of objects no longer deemed safe for carrying onboard a commercial airplane. [2:54 streaming audio broadcast]

• Politics and Plane Crashes

  http://plane-truth.com/
  Describes a four-year investigation into three plane crashes TWA 800, Pan Am 103 and Air India 182. Introduces the "Plane Truth" book of the author.

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