Transportation Disaster Alert!

Transportation Disaster Alert! uses historic black and white images and contemporary photographs to chronicle the history of many famous disasters, including train wrecks, air crashes, and ship collisions. A section on how to make distress calls gives readers an understanding of how such a disaster might unfold. Topics include - causes of transportation disasters - types of disasters, such as shipwrecks, derailments, and plane crashes - reaction to transportation disasters, and who helps and responds - famous catastrophes, such as the Hindenberg, the Titanic, the space shuttle and the hijacking of planes on September 11 - the aftermath of disaster and how recovery takes place - safety measures to help avoid disasters