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