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Overview
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
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780778715849
- ISBN-10: 0778715841
- Publisher: Crabtree Classics
- Publish Date: October 2005
- Dimensions: 11.08 x 8.74 x 0.34 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.88 pounds
- Page Count: 32
- Reading Level: Ages 10-13
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