This list is under construction. Date of last update is 16 March 2000.

Aviation Accident Links

Aviation Safety Network: Accident Specials

(A) extensive accident database for major aircraft accidents from 1977 to date - each accident includes an accident description and a variety of supporting information placing the accident in context

Fokker 27

(A) description of the aircraft and list of using airlines - includes abstracts of Fokker/Fairchild F27 crash information (some detailed) from 1958 through 1998

The TWA Flight 800 Information Center

(M) small general information meta-site on the TWA 800 crash - includes a bulletin board with a wide range of comments on alternative theories of accident causation

Real History Archives TWA Flight 800 Collection

(M) small conspiracy meta-site for the TWA 800 crash - focus of links and articles listed on this site is on the theory that TWA 800 was shot down, with an emphasis on the role of the US armed forces

The Real Story of KAL 007

(B) Accuracy in Media site on KAL 007 - challenges report that Soviets believed KAL 007 was a military aircraft and suggests that Soviet testimony confirms KAL 007 was known to be civilian transport

KAL Flight 007

(B) synopsis of book by Michel Brun suggesting that KAL 007 was part of an intelligence gathering mission (that developed into an air battle) and was destroyed some distance from Sakhalin

Politicians Killed in Aircraft Accidents and Disasters

(B) fascinating partial list of politicians killed in aircraft accidents from 1917 to date, with a synposis of their political careers, date and location of death, and interment location

TWA 800 Case Files

(A) ostensibly neutral site provides variety of scenarios that may account for the accident and an extensive newsletter file - seems to suggest the US military covered up a friendly fire incident

The Crash of Aer Lingus Flight 712

(B) provides basic details and links the crash of the Vickers Viscount to the Itavia and TWA 800 crashes - points to coverup and suggests aircraft was hit by another aircraft, missile, or drone

Mystery of Aer Lingus Flight 712

(A) chronicles continuing investigation of Vickers Viscount crash in March 1968 - suggests governmental and airline coverup of possible downing of the aircraft by missile or drone from a ship or base

Unsolved: The Itavia DC-9 Crash

(B) chronicles the investigation of a June 1980 crash in the Tyrrhenian Sea - suggests NATO shot down the aircraft while intercepting a Libyan fighter - includes information on 1999 judicial inquiry

Itavia DC-9: 1994 Technical Commission Finds Bomb Evidence

(B) presents the alternative (and far more likely) findings by a 1994 Italian Technical Commission that the Itavia crash resulted from a bomb explosion in the aircraft lavatory

Itavia DC-9 Investigative Analysis Graphics

(C) advances theory that the Itavia DC-9 was hit by two semi-active radar homing missiles and supports the theory by graphical analysis

Vickers Viscount Safety Record

(B) database of Vickers Viscount accidents from 1956 to 1997 with limited information on site, air line, cause, and casualties - has more detailed discussion of several accidents

The Mystery of the Rietbok

(C) brief and only partial synopsis of the crash of South African Airways Flight 406 in the sea southwest of East London, South Africa

Air Disaster.Com

(A) extensive accident database with incident summaries, eyewitness reports, links to fukll text reports, additional investigations, video images, photograph archive, and cockpit voice recorder tapes

Hydrogen Exonerated in Hindenburg Disaster

(A-) 1997 article in National Hydrogen Association's newsletter advocating theory that Hindenburg was destroyed by a fire caused by an electrical discharge on the Airship's skin, not a hydrogen fire

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