Going down: crisis and a school community

Abstract

Aeroplanes fly routinely over residential areas. As we watch them fly over our cities, and our houses, it is difficult to think of a plane crashing amongst us. But that is what happened one evening in October 1992 in Amsterdam when a large cargo plane crashed into an apartment block. The following day a number of pupils did not show up at an elementary school in the vicinity. The majority turned up but four remained missing: they had been casualties of the plane crash. How did this school community manage the situation?

Citation

Burggraaf, W. (2000), "Going down: crisis and a school community", International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 14 No. 7, pp. 292-298. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513540010378941