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Description |
| A Site Index | A Comprehensive Referral By Topics |
| An SR111 Synopsis
for the NineMSN SUNDAY PROGRAM |
Summarising What is known and Suspected |
| Personal Smokehoods | a must read! (the short joining procedure is worthwhile) |
| Personal Smokehoods | a must read! (on another site -no joining) |
| Victim’s Memorial Pages | the Patrick Hirang Site (with SR111 victim listing) |
| Official "Families of Swissair Flight 111" Club | a YAHOO Site |
| the MEMO | an admonition to an MD11 Airline Operator |
| Memorial Site | the Don Ames Site |
| Memorial Site SR111 | Swissair crash specific commentary |
| Memorial Site SR111 | links to other SR111 sites |
| FAQ’s Fire-on-board | frequently asked questions (from pax point-of-view) |
| Air Crash Victims Support Site | national non-political, non-profit, tax-exempt (501c3) organization |
| Air Accident Stories and Articles | Alex Pattersons Site (superb + Index) |
| The Korean Air Safety Audit | A Must Read |
| A Chinese Airline Graphic | Losing Face? (or just facing the wrong way) |
| A Real Mess in the Parking Area | Full Power Blows Away Anchorage Terminal |
| Worth a look (unless you frighten easily) | Not a site for easily frightened passengers |
| Nova Scotia Herald News | Swissair Stories |
| Many Swissair related Links | from the Yahoo Family Support Site |
| Crash Detectives | on Discovery.com |
| Avweb Safety | good write-ups |
| Transportation Safety Board of Canada | Swissair Crash Investigation Reporting |
| Transportation Safety Board of Canada Links | TSB Official Links page to RCMP etc |
| National Air Disaster Alliance | MISSION: Raise the standard of safety, security and survivability for commercial aviation passengers and for support of victims' families. |
| US NEWS (SR111) | Story on Kapton |
| Air Safety Week | In depth aircraft technical wiring reports |
| Arc-Wire Tracking Site | Patrick Price (37 year veteran of Boeing) and aircraft wiring expert |
| Swissair Accident Technical Commentary | the Dagger Dirk Site (always updated) |
| Technical Article on Landings Dot Com | SR111 crash- Written a few days after the accident |
| Valujet 592 Memorial site | dedicated to
those who lost their lives in the senseless and unnecessary air disaster of May 11, 1996 |
| Families of TWA800 site | group which formed in the wake of the July 1996 disaster |
| Aviation Lawyer | Arthur Allan Wolk |
| Air Crash Commentary Site | Air Safety Links |
| Compuserve Aviation Safety Forum | a mix of info, disinfo and misinfo by pundits, experts etc |
| Swissair Accident Coverage | Indepth Swissair Accident Coverage |
| AirLine Safety Site | Swissair Coverage |
| Canadian SR111 news site | |
| Full Swissair Crash coverage by YAHOO | Yahoo news-site |
| Detroit News | Swissair Coverage |
| "Aviation Week" Coverage of SR111 | tech/professional aspects |
| "Aviation Week" Air Safety Site | in-depth coverage (with insider knowledge) |
| Halifax News coverage SR111 | continuously up-dated investigation coverage |
| Halifax Herald News Coverage | Original 1998 coverage |
| Halifax Herald News Coverage | 1999 coverage |
| The Toronto Star SR111 coverage | all original (not as up-to-date as Halifax Herald) |
| ABCNews Wiring Coverage | TV News Story |
| Airline Safety | Harry Ranter’s site |
| Airline Safety | Data-base |
| Aviation Week Online | Flight-deck Automation |
| FAA Safety Resource Centre | Flight-deck Automation |
| NTSB Home Page | Aviation safety |
| Passenger Fatalities in US Airlines | no indication of RISK |
| Valujet 592 | Valujet 592 |
| Valujet 592 | up-to-date revelations |
| Avn Week Safety News | Air safety essays |
| The EVAS Smoke-in-the-Cockpit Sighting Device | EVAS smoke-in-the-cockpit safety system |
| Flight Safety Web-sites | Links to aviation safety sites |
| The Last 37 Fatal Airliner Events | The last 30 significant crashes |
| Fatal Airliner Events by model | Airline safety by airliner models |
| The Flight Safety Foundation | The Flight Safety Foundation |
| Disaster.com | Air Disasters |
| ALPA | Airline Pilots Association Safety Page |
| Avn Safety Net | Swissair AVNET News |
| Flight Safety Site | Aviation safety |
| Pilot's Hot-Line | Pilot’s safety helpline |
| Cockpit Voice Recorder Transcripts | CVR Transcripts |
| Aviation Week (AW&ST) | Aviation Week safety pages |
| IFALPA | International Airline Pilots Assn |
| The Airsafe Journal (back issues) | Air-safety site (reports) |
| The Aviation Safety Network | Air-safety site |
| Aviation Related Links | Air-safety site |
| Passenger Safety Card Page | Airline safety passenger briefing cards |
| Aviation Accident Site | Air-safety site |
| Aviation Accident Stats | statistical |
| The Aviation Safety Network | Safety reports |
| PROAIR | Register to get regular air-safety reports |
| Cabin Fire Safety Overview | Cabin fire-safety |
| International Conference on Aircraft Cabin Safety Research | Cabin fire-safety plan |
| Aircraft Materials Fire-Test Working Group | International Aircraft Materials Fire Test Working Group |
| Handheld Extinguishers | Plan to replace a/c halon hand-held fire-extinguishers |
| Best Air Safety Sites on the web | Best air-safety links |
| Human Factors in Aviation | Cockpit Resource Manager (the art of not arguing in the cockpit) |
| AW&ST ONLINE | Great aviation stories |
| IATA | International air Transport Org |
| International Federation of Airworthiness | The Airworthiness Foundation |
| Avn Week Air Safety Centre | Avn Week's Safety Pages |
| recent accidents & incidents | Recent accidents |
| Air Transport Safety Site | Air-safety links |
| accident photos | Airline accident photos |
| Search NTSB accident data-base | Search for an accident report |
| The Silkair Crash | Silkair Airliner Crash |
| Silkair Latest | Suicide or similar SR111? |
| The Crash that invented CRM | United Airlines 173 |
| NTSB Accident Syopses by Month | Search for an accident by month or year |
| NTSB Accident Tables | NTSB home-page |
| Australian Aircraft Accident Investigation | Australia’s NTSB equivalent called BASI |
| NZ Accidents | New Zealand’s BASI |
| UNITED
KINGDOM AIR ACCIDENTS INVESTIGATION BRANCH |
UK equivalent of BASI |
| the Inflight Safety Page | Aviation accidents |
| The
Interfaces Between Flightcrews and Modern Flight Deck Systems |
Aviation computer softwares |
| Victims' legal rights | Swissair victim’s legal rights |
| Air Law Commentary | Swissair victim’s legal rights |
| Aircraft Accident Litigation | Swissair victim’s legal rights |
| SR111 articles | Swissair victim’s legal rights |
| NASA's Accident site | Aviation accidents |
| Aviation Industry Links | The most useful aviation web-sites |
| Aviation Accident Links | Aviation accident site |
| Civil Aviation Administration in Australia | The Civil Aviation Administration in Australia |
| FAA Aviation Research Ctr | The Federal Aviation Tech Site |
| Research Development & Human Factors | Research & development into Human Factors in Aviation |
| The Risks Digest | The Risks Digest (subscribe free) |
| Memorial Site | MD11 accident site |
| Airline Pilot's Safety Site | A pilot’s View of Airline Safety |
| The Peter Ladkin site (top info) | Computer-related incidents in Commercial aircraft |
| Latest PR releases by FAA | Latest PR releases by FAA |
| Halifax Airport | Halifax airport |
| Air Crash Support Network | Family support |
| Aviation Accident Database | Accident data-base |
| Wiring Test-Sets | Wiring Test Equipment |
| Wolk & Genter (Attorneys) | Defective aircraft wiring |
| John Barry Smith’s site | Defective aircraft wiring |
| Selected Aviation Links | Aviation links page |
| Should the Flight Deck revert back to a Three Person Crew? | Flight Engineers |
| Pprune Airline Pilot's Forum | Airline Pilot's Rumour Forum |
| Materials Combustion Research Facility | combustibility / inflammability / designed-in incendiarism |
| Arc-Tracking
(Wire Insulation Pyrolization) |
the least desirable electrical wire insulation characteristic |
| Madden's Air Transportation Safety Resources | run by a PHd |
| The Cabin Safety Working Group | affiliated with the Australian Society of Air Safety Investigators |
| SWissair Page | Harro Ranter SR111 analysis and data site |
| Passenger Smoke hoods | A Flight Safety Foundation page |
| Kel air safety program | A Tech Site addressing "age old" air safety problems |
| Newsweek coverage | quite basic |
| Swissair Accident site (very comprehensive) | on AirlinePilots.com site |
| Jump-seat Oxy may have fed fire | A good lead (and getting warmer) for SR111 |
| Swissair Airline's SR111 Accident PR | Swissair Press Releases |
| International Aviation Safety Association (IASA) | New Kid on the Block (but destined to stir like crazy) |
| Halon Fire extinguishers in aircraft | Technical run-down (including applicable FAR's) |
| More on Halon Fire Extinguishers in Airliners | Some HALON Fire Extinguisher success stories |
| Cockpit fire extinguishers | What is Halon (and where to get it) |
| Aircraft wiring dangers of fretting | You'll need Acrobat Reader to read this |
| Replacing faulty aircraft wiring & insulation | FAA Action on Aircraft
Insulation Flammability Parallels Need for Urgency on Aircraft Wiring Fire-Safety |
| The Project On Government Oversight | Trip-wired by faulty airplane wiring. |
| The Project On Government Oversight (wiring summary) | POGO. What it says "sticks" |
| Electrical Wire Arcing Phenomena | The Thermodynamics of Electrical Fires |
| Another SR111 Analysis | click on the graphic |
| Kapton as the Villain | US News Article |
| Arc-Tracking (Wire Insulation Pyrolization) | Great Photos of burnt wiring looms |
| Arc-Tracking (Wire Insulation Pyrolization) | NASA Lewis Research Centre |
| Fires of Electrical Origin (very comprehensive) | A Slide walk-through. Read through table of contents. |
| Arc-Tracking Sciences | The Scientific Analysis |
| Aviation Kapton wiring for sale | read the glossy blurb |
| New Aircraft Wiring Inspections Long Needed | Aviation Week OnLine Article (A MUST READ) |
| Cabin Safety and Accident Survival | Research site |
| Cabin Evacuation Research | FAA Cabin Safety Research Team Site |
| The Politics of Aviation Safety | Aviation Week OnLine |
| Wire type on MD-11 known to trigger fires | Seattle Times Article |
| Air Safety ViewPoints | A.W.&S.T. story listings |
| General Air Safety Site Links (comprehensive) | numerous aviation safety links |
| FAA Action | CNN Article with good links |
| The Aviation Safety Institute | non-profit research centre |
| The Aviation Safety Institute Accident & Incident Update (refreshed each Thursday) | timely initial reports |
| Aging Aircraft Electrical Systems Are Potential Killers Warranting a Major Examination, Experts Argue | ASW on Valujet 592 |
| Swissair Update reports | AirWise on Kapton in SR111 |
| The Danger of Ageing Aircraft | NTSB Hearings |
| New rules promote safety in the skies | Air Canada Safety Initiatives |
| Did Gadgets
Go Awry? Probing Swissair's entertainment system |
The Inflight
Entertainment System on Swissair 111 |
| Human Factors in Aviation Medicine | Joint FAA/NASA Program |
| Smoke In The Cockpit
How Airline Pilots React |
Air Safety Week on SR111 |
| Boeing 737 inspections: Half of older models show wear and tear | US NEWS Front Page |
| Al Gore on Ageing Aircraft Safety Concerns | The WhiteHouse Commission |
| Predicting wire insulation breakdowns | The USN & RAF experiences |
| Aviation Safety Training | Including aircraft cabin safety |
| Suspect insulation found in Swissair wreckage | NewsWorld Article |
| Swissair Crash Raises Cockpit Safety Issues | Has Any-one seen the Flt Eng? |
| U.S. Agency Seeks Mandatory 747 Wiring Checks | Reuters Article |
| Just asking for it | the All-Electric Aircraft |
| TWA800 – what really happened? | A Good Technical Bias |
| FEAR OF FLYING? Money in politics affects air travel safety | The Centre of Public Integrity |
| Old Airplanes Are Not Immortal and Should Be Retired, Former Safety Board Member Urges | just new tires will not suffice |
| Cabin accidents | NTSB Site |
| DIX-EVAC® PASSENGER LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM |
Protection from Toxic Smoke |
| More B737 Computer Problems | from the RISKS Digest |
| AIRCRAFT FIRE FIELD MODELS | Computer Simulations |
| Vision Safe | The EVAS home site (smoke vision aid for pilots) |
| Older jets face stiff FAA tests | Geriatric Jets -past their flyby date? |
| BASI Accident Index | Index of Australian Aircraft Accident Reports |
| For the More Technically Minded | Peter Ladkin PhD (his site) |
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