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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451960603321

Autore

Corsetti Emilio

Titolo

35 miles from shore [[electronic resource] ] : the ditching and rescue of ALM flight 980 / / Emilio Corsetti III

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-9778971-4-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

362.12/465

363.12409729

Soggetti

Aircraft accidents - Investigation - Virgin Islands of the United States

Survival

Aircraft accidents - Caribbean Sea

ALM Flight 980 Crash, 1970

Shipwreck survival

Survival at sea

Airplane crash survival

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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