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.
For over two decades, this unassuming, almost deliberately ugly website has been the single most comprehensive, publicly accessible repository of commercial aviation accident data. It is a digital morgue, a historian’s goldmine, and a nervous flyer’s nightmare—all wrapped in HTML that has not been updated since the era of dial-up. 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