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Question
What causes travel-related disasters?
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Solution
Accidents during train, road and flight journeys are common. It becomes a disaster when a large number of people die. Most of such incidents occur due to equipment failure, loss of radar transmission in planes, or failure of brakes in buses, human error. Example : driver falling asleep while driving or missing a railway signal, fuel leakage or natural phenomenon like earthquake, storms or landslide.
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