Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The Tragedy and Triumph of Asa Flight 529 - Hardcover

Pomerantz, Gary M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609606336 ISBN 13: 9780609606339

Verlag: Crown Pub, 2001

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Book by Pomerantz Gary M

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Drawing on the testimonies of survivors, this detailed account of the 1995 crash of a commuter airline chronicles the events of the disaster, the heroic efforts ot the flight crew to bring the plane down safely, the inferno that followed, claiming the lives of the captain and nine passengers, and the aftermath of the tragedy for survivors. 75,000 first printing.

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ply moving account of the extraordinary strengths that ordinary people can display when tragedy confronts them. As emotionally powerful a book as you are likely ever to read.”
–David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross

In August 1995, twenty-six passengers and a crew of three board a commuter plane in Atlanta headed for Gulfport, Mississippi. Shortly after takeoff they hear an explosion and, looking out the windows on the left side, see a mangled engine lodged against the wing. From that moment, nine minutes and twenty seconds elapse until the crippled plane crashes in a west Georgia hayfield–nine minutes and twenty seconds in which Gary Pomerantz takes readers deep into the hearts and minds of the people aboard, each of whom prepares in his or her own way for what may come.

Ultimately, nineteen people survive both the crash and its devastating aftermath, all of them profoundly affected by what they have seen and

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• Verlag: Crown Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0609606336
• ISBN 13: 9780609606339
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 286