The Wright brothers watched lots of birds in flight. They looked at how they glided into the air. They noticed when they flew in the air, the wind that flowed over their wings created lift. They thought that in the next few years, they could design and make a glider that used the technique of the flying bird. In the next three years, they built gliders that would be flown in piloted flights and as kites. Orville and Wilbur

  A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes, floods, catastrophic accidents, fires, or explosions. It is a phenomenon that can cause damage to life and property and destroy the economic, social and cultural life of people. What is a disaster ?

Important Airplane Disasters in early 21st century

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December The first multiple fatality airplane accident in history happened at Cento Celle, near Rome, when Lt. Enrico Cammarota and Private S. Castellani became the 26th and 27th people to die in a aircraft crash. Their Farman biplane broke during a turn and they died in a military hospital.

June Capt. Marcel Dubois and Albert Peignan of the French Army were killed near Douai when their planes collided in mid-air, the first fatal mid-air collision in history. 26 June 2nd Lt. Henry H. Arnold, holder of Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) pilot certificate No. 29 and Military Aviator Certificate No. 2, after accepting the Army's first tractor airplane, Burgess Model H, Signal Corps 9, crashes into Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts after takeoff, receiving the scar on his chin that he shows distinctively for the rest of his life.

February Russian pilot N. de Sackoff becomes the first pilot shot down in combat when his biplane, possibly a Maurice Farman MF.7, is hit by ground fire following bomb run on the walls of Fort Bizani during the First Balkan War. Flying for the Greeks, he comes down near small

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 The missing aircraft, 9M-MRO, pictured in M-MRO Incident summary Date8 March 2014 SummaryMissing SiteUnknown Passengers227 Crew12 Aircraft typeBoeing ER OperatorMalaysia Airlines Registration9M-MRO Flight originKuala Lumpur International Airport

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