35 miles from shore : the ditching and rescue of ALM flight 980 / Emilio Corsetti III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corsetti, Emilio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aircraft accidents--Investigation--Virgin Islands of the United States.

Aircraft accidents.

Survival.

Aircraft accidents--Caribbean Sea.

ALM Flight 980 Crash, 1970.

Shipwreck survival.

Survival at sea.

Airplane crash survival.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lake St. Louis, Mo. : Odyssey Pub., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On May 2, 1970, a DC-9 jet with 57 passengers and a crew of six departed from New York's JFK International Airport en route to the tropical island of St. Maarten, but four hours and 34 minutes later the flight ended in the shark-infested waters of the Caribbean. It was, and remains, the only open-water ditching of a commercial jet. The subsequent rescue of survivors took nearly three hours and involved the coast guard, navy, and marines. This gripping account of that fateful day recounts what was happening inside the cabin, the cockpit, and the helicopters as t

Contents:

Passengers & Crew; Rescuers; Investigators, Airline Personnel, and Other Interested Parties; Abbreviations; Prologue; Part One: PREFLIGHT; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Part Two: LAST FLIGHT OF THE CARIB QUEEN; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Part Three: POSTFLIGHT; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Epilogue; Endnotes; Sources; Credits; Acknowledgments

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-9778971-4-1

OCLC:

560601925