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On May 2, 1970, a passenger jet with
fifty-seven passengers and a crew of six departed New York�s JFK
international airport en route to the tropical island of St. Maarten.
The flight ended four hours and thirty-four minutes later in the
shark-infested waters of the Caribbean. It was at the time, 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. In this gripping account of that
fateful day, author Emilio Corsetti puts the reader inside the cabin,
the cockpit, and the rescue helicopters as the crews struggle against
the weather and dwindling daylight to rescue the survivors who have
only their life vests and a lone escape chute to keep them afloat. |
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From Shore
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