Disaster in Popular Media
- Miditech, a company based in Gurgaon, Haryana, produced a documentary about the disaster called Head On!, aired on the National Geographic Channel.
- The disaster was again the subject of an episode in the documentary series Mayday on March 2, 2009 entitled "Crash Course", in a wide-screen format with sophisticated computer animations on National Geographic Channel.
Read more about this topic: Charkhi Dadri Mid-air Collision
Famous quotes containing the words disaster, popular and/or media:
“It was so long since I’d seen masses of young men that I’d forgotten how much pleasanter men of between twenty and thirty were to be around with than older men. It isnt so true of women. When I was in my twenties I thought the grown adults I ran into were a disaster and now I know I was right.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)