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Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back by Jeré Longman Publisher Comments Of the four horrific hijackings on September 11, Flight 93 resonates as one of epic resistance. At a time when the United States appeared defenseless against an unfamiliar foe, the gallant passengers and crew of Flight 93 provided for many Americans a... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Naked Pilot: The Human Factor in Aircraft Accidents by David Beaty Publisher Comments Investigations into the causes of aircraft accidents have for decades focused on what happened and who did it - very rarely 'Why'? It is the question 'Why' that David Beaty has addressed here, fighting the misnomer of 'pilot error' and propounding that... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Miracle on the Hudson: The Survivors of Flight 1549 Tell Their Extraordinary Stories of Courage, Faith, and Determination by Laura Parker Publisher Comments In this heart-stopping, page-turning tale of fear, heroism, and redemption, the passengers of the Hudson River crash landing tell their remarkable stories. Millions watched the aftermath on television, while others witnessed the event actually... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Deadly Departure: Why the Experts Failed to Prevent the TWA Flight 800 Disaster and How It Could Happen Again by Christine Negroni Publisher Comments The in-flight explosion of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996, was one of the deadliest disasters in American history, spurring the most expensive airline investigation ever undertaken by the U.S. government. To this day the crash remains clouded in doubt... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back by Jere Longman Publisher Comments Of the four horrific hijackings on September 11, Flight 93 resonates as one of epic resistance.At a time when the United States appeared defenseless against an unfamiliar foe, the gallant passengers and crew of Flight 93 provided for many Americans a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Final Flight: The Mystery of a WWII Plane Crash and the Frozen Airmen in the High Sierra by Peter Stekel Synopsis In October 2005, two mountaineers climbing above Mendel Glacier in the High Sierra finds the mummified remains of a man in a WW II uniform, entombed in the ice. The “Iceman” discovery creates a media storm which draws author Peter Stekel to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Disaster at the Pole: The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1921 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole by Wilbur Cross Publisher Comments Shackleton, Scott, Amundsen. The great twentieth-century polar explorers. But others, too, were engaged in scrambles to the poles. One of the most bizarre and unfortunate involved that enormous and impressive spectacle of aviation's early days: the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson by William Langewiesche Publisher Comments In Fly by Wire, one of Americas greatest journalists takes us on a "fascinating" (The New York Times) and sometimes humorous journey into the rapidly changing aviation industry. Langewiesche concisely and artfully renders forty years of history in... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Beyond the Black Box: The Forensics of Airplane Crashes by George D. Bibel Publisher Comments The black box is orange-and there are actually two of them. They house the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, instruments vital to airplane crash analyses. But accident investigators cannot rely on the black boxes alone. Beginning with... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price: $29.29 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside an Investigation by Bill Adair Publisher Comments The immediate human toll of the 1994 Flight 427 disaster was staggering: all 132 people aboard died on a Pennsylvania hillside. The subsequent investigation was a maze of politics, bizarre theories, and shrouded answers. Bill Adair, an award-winning... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Air Accident Investigation by David Owen Publisher Comments Author David Owen looks at each major cause of airline disaster which is illustrated by means of crucial incidents, some of which initially puzzled the investigators. Of the incidents described in detail, some were highly publicized by the meadia at the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival by Robert Sabbag Publisher Comments A bestselling author tells the terrifying and inspiring story of the plane crash he survived Around midnight on June 17, 1979, Air New England flight 248 crashed into the woods on Cape Cod. The pilot died but the copilot and eight passengers survived... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-Flight Accidents by Malcolm MacPherson Publisher Comments Readers join desperate pilots in the cockpit as they fight gravity and time in a plane that's falling out of the sky. Anyone who watches the news knows about the "black box." Officially called the cockpit voice recorder, the black box (which is... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Brace for Impact: Miracle on the Hudson Survivors Share Their Stories of Near Death and Hope for New Life by Dorothy Firman Publisher Comments What Passengers of Flight 1549 Want Others to Know About Second Chances Brace for impact. Three simple words that proclaimed to all 150 passengers on board US Airways Flight 1549 on that cold, crisp New York afternoon of January 15, 2009, that their... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson by William Langewiesche Publisher Comments The author of The Atomic Bazaar argues that the miraculous safe crash landing on the Hudson River should not only be credited to pilot Chelsey "Sully" Sullenberger, but also the advances in aviation and computer technology that have taken place over the... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Aftermath by Flying Magazine List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hijack Our Story of Survival by Lizzie Anders Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Baling Out: Amazing Dramas of Military Flying by Robert Jackson Publisher Comments To bale out of a stricken airplane is a pilot's or aircrew's final chance to escape death. It is a traumatic and hazardous exercise that is only practiced in extremis and is in itself full of danger with no guarantee of survival. Many struggled free of a... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $16.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Among the Heroes United Flight 93 & The by Jere Longman Your price: $4.50 Used - Book Club Hardcover
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Safety Last the Dangers of Commercial Av by Captain X Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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