Air Disasters (airdisaster.com)

Member Name: sharktrager

Product:	airdisaster.com
Date:	15/04/02 (410 review reads)
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Advantages: It's difficult to state 'advantages' or 'disadvantages' to this kind of a site - it's useful but unpleasant

Disadvantages: See 'advantages'

This is the kind of website that divides opinions. Some people may find it sick, and there are certainly some weird people out there who would visit the site simply to get their jollies from watching air accidents. However, looked at from another point of view, it is an excellent resource for information for people involved in the press and the aviation industry.

The site presents videos, photos, documents, eyewitness accounts, voice recorder transcripts, and many other resources which anyone would find interesting if researching this kind of accident. It is slightly disorientating to realise that you can download video of the September 11 terrorist attacks though. The footage that was shown over and over again on television for months after the attack was heartbreaking, and truly still makes me feel quite ill whilst thinking about it now. So the thought of voluntarily downloading the footage made me feel quite queasy. Suffice it to say I chose not to download it!

The site is not for the fainthearted, and I would strongly advise anyone against visiting it for an 'entertainment' point of view. But in the areas of research and journalism, it is undoubtedly a useful resource.

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