Planecrashinfo [best] -

Let’s be honest: the site is ugly. Beige background. Black text. Blue, un-visited links. No CSS. No mobile responsiveness. In an era of parallax scrolling and glassmorphism, PlaneCrashInfo looks like a Geocities relic.

The site was founded by , an aviation enthusiast and systems engineer (often cited under the pseudonym "Ron R. from the NYC area"). What began as a personal spreadsheet in the early 1990s—a simple log of notable crashes—grew into a sprawling database. Ron’s stated mission was straightforward: To provide a complete, factual, and respectful record of every commercial airplane accident with a fatality count, from the early days of flight to the present. planecrashinfo

Ron R. has created something rare on the modern internet: a . It is a reminder that the web was once a place where one person’s obsession could become the world’s reference library. Let’s be honest: the site is ugly