TRAVEL WATCH: DECEMBER 13, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 23

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Safety Tip: Listen to Those Boring Demos! If you think flying safely is all up to the pilots, think again Detour Legend has it that 1,500 years ago a beautiful princess appeared in Imadate Web Crawling If it took you years to get back in the pool after seeing Jaws, it may take decades to get back on a plane after a visit to airdisaster.com Off the Shelf The Forbidden City: This pocket-sized guide to Beijing's premier landmark accomplishes a great deal in a small space

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AIRDISASTER
(www.airdisaster.com)
AIR SCARE: If it took you years to get back in the pool after seeing Jaws, it may take decades to get back on a plane after a visit to airdisaster.com. This slick site offers downloadable crash videos, photographs, eyewitness reports and an enormous database of safety information. Perhaps the most chilling feature is the collection of voice-recorder files broadcasting the final moments of disaster-bound jets.

INFLIGHT SAFETY
(www.plsys.co.uk/~anna/inflight.html)
WISE FLYER: While flying is among the safest forms of travel on the planet, it pays to know what to do in an emergency. This site, run by a former British Airways inflight-safety trainer, contains plenty of information on how to protect yourself and your companions in a survivable crash. While some of the advice may seem to be simply common sense, the tips bear repeating.