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Product Description: This report describes research to quantify the “rescuability window” of downed aircrews to assist the U.S. Air Force's reassessment of its personnel recovery force structure.

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9780833090966 | Rand Corp, November 9, 2015, cover price $34.50 | About this edition: This report describes research to quantify the “rescuability window” of downed aircrews to assist the U.

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Product Description: "A richly detailed story that is equal parts heartbreaking, inspiring…and full of fascinating science…masterful." ―San Francisco ChronicleAs hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City...read more

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9780393240023 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 7, 2014, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet.

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9780393351262 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 13, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "A richly detailed story that is equal parts heartbreaking, inspiring…and full of fascinating science…masterful.

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Product Description: After miraculously surviving a plane crash in Myanmar, Allan Lokos shares what his long and painful recovery process is teaching him about humanity’s ability to survive—and even thrive—in the face of suffering. In Through the Flames, Allan Lokos tells the terrifying story of being on board a plane on Christmas Day with his wife, Susanna, when it crashed and exploded in flames...read more

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9780399171802 | J P Tarcher, February 5, 2015, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: After miraculously surviving a plane crash in Myanmar, Allan Lokos shares what his long and painful recovery process is teaching him about humanity’s ability to survive—and even thrive—in the face of suffering.

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9781455501953 | Grand Central Pub, May 21, 2013, cover price $25.00

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9781455501960 | Grand Central Pub, May 13, 2014, cover price $15.99

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9781742574745 | Reprint edition (New Holland Pub Pty Ltd, March 31, 2014), cover price $29.99

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Product Description: This guidance is intended primarily for seafarers. It provides information which will help you if you are unlucky enough to fall into cold water, or have to enter it in an emergency, or have to use survival craft in cold conditions...read more

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9789280115659 | Intl Maritime Organization, March 1, 2013, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: This guidance is intended primarily for seafarers.

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Product Description: Punching Out features a unique collection of firsthand stories of the rare individuals who have been baptized by rocket fire, pushed beyond the edge of endurance, and experienced face-to-face encounters with their own mortality. These are the pilots who have survived high-speed ejections and lived to tell their stories to a new generation...read more
By James Cross (editor) and Dick Rutan (foreword by)

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9780312383152 | Griffin, April 26, 2011, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Punching Out features a unique collection of firsthand stories of the rare individuals who have been baptized by rocket fire, pushed beyond the edge of endurance, and experienced face-to-face encounters with their own mortality.

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Product Description: A bestselling author tells the terrifying and inspiring story of the plane crash he survivedAround 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 with trauma both physical and emotional...read more

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9780670021024 | Viking Pr, June 11, 2009, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A bestselling author tells the terrifying and inspiring story of the plane crash he survivedAround midnight on June 17, 1979, Air New England flight 248 crashed into the woods on Cape Cod.

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9780977897100 | Odyssey Pub Llc, April 28, 2008, cover price $14.95

Miscellaneous:

9780977897148 | Independent Pub Group, April 28, 2008, cover price $9.95

Miscellaneous:

9780977897117 | Independent Pub Group, April 1, 2008, cover price $9.95
9780977897124 | Independent Pub Group, April 1, 2008, cover price $9.95
9780977897131 | Independent Pub Group, April 1, 2008, cover price $9.95
9780977897155 | Independent Pub Group, April 1, 2008, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed somewhere deep in the Andes...read more

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9780739326329 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, May 9, 2006), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days provides his account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of frozen wilderness to find help.
9781400097678 | Crown Pub, May 9, 2006, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Nando Parrado regained consciousness to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as family members and supporters, had crashed deep in the Andes.

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9781400097692 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, May 22, 2007), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days--popularized in the best-selling Alive--provides his own chilling account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of frozen wilderness to find help.

Miscellaneous:

9780307347022 | Crown Pub, May 9, 2006, cover price $14.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739332580 | Abridged edition (Random House, May 9, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days provides his account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of frozen wilderness to find help.

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9781435282827 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 22, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.

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Documents the 1946 survival story of six Navy officers whose Martin Mariner Seaplane crashed in the Antarctic during a 'white-out' snowstorm, describing the harrowing conditions from which they escaped over the course of thirteen days.

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9780312342050 | Thomas Dunne Books, November 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Documents the 1946 survival story of six Navy officers whose Martin Mariner Seaplane crashed in the Antarctic during a 'white-out' snowstorm, describing the harrowing conditions from which they escaped over the course of thirteen days.

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Product Description: When Peter DeLeo set out one Sunday morning on a sightseeing and photography trip over the central Sierra Nevada mountains in California, he had no idea that he would soon be fighting for his life with the odds stacked very much against him...read more

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9780743270069 | Scribner, January 31, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A plane crash survivor recounts how his single-engine plane crashed in the Sierra Nevadas in 1994 and how he hiked for two weeks through the wilderness with sixteen broken bones and no emergency supplies before he was able to find help.

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9780743270243 | Simon & Schuster, December 10, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: When Peter DeLeo set out one Sunday morning on a sightseeing and photography trip over the central Sierra Nevada mountains in California, he had no idea that he would soon be fighting for his life with the odds stacked very much against him.
9781861059024, titled "Survive: My Fight for Life in the High Sierras" | Gardners Books, September 22, 2005, cover price $13.90 | About this edition: When Peter DeLeo set out one Sunday morning on a sightseeing and photography trip over the central Sierra Nevada mountains in California, he had no idea that he would soon be fighting for his life with the odds stacked very much against him.

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Product Description: This is the story of a Photo Reconnaissance pilot in WWII shot out of the sky over the rain forest of the island of New Britain in the South Pacific. After 30 days alone he was found by friendly natives. Hidden from the nearby Japanese soldiers and later taken to the camp of a team of Australian Commandos who arranged his rescue in a USA submarine...read more

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9781589091160 | Cyberread Pub, January 30, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This is the story of a Photo Reconnaissance pilot in WWII shot out of the sky over the rain forest of the island of New Britain in the South Pacific.

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Product Description: The stories of many POW escapees are well known, but what about those who miraculously evaded capture in the first place and returned to fight another day? This compelling book tells some of the epic stories of the thousands of shot-down airmen, including Canadians from across the country, who got out from behind enemy lines in Europe, the Far East, and Africa during the Second World War...read more

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9781550024838 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, November 20, 2003, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: The stories of many POW escapees are well known, but what about those who miraculously evaded capture in the first place and returned to fight another day?

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9780805992151 | Rosedog Pr, January 14, 2003, cover price $19.00

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A collection of interviews with survivors of airline disasters, along with excerpts from the cockpit voice recorder accounts, offers chilling eyewitness profiles of emergencies in the air, from the first awareness of a problem, to preparing to deal with with impact, to efforts to escape. Original.
By Malcolm MacPherson (editor)

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9780060959784 | 1 edition (Perennial, November 1, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of interviews with survivors of airline disasters, along with excerpts from the cockpit voice recorder accounts, offers eyewitness profiles of emergencies in the air.

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Product Description: Book by Kling, Tammy L.

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9781570718601 | Sourcebooks Inc, November 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Book by Kling, Tammy L.

A collection of stirring, hair-raising tales of adventure takes readers deep into the heart of firefighting, from chemical fires in Manhattan to the firestorm that devoured a third of Yellowstone Park in the late-1980s. Original. (view table of contents)
By Clint Willis (editor)

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9781560254027 | Da Capo Pr, June 3, 2002, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of tales takes readers deep into the heart of firefighting, from chemical fires in Manhattan to the firestorm that devoured a third of Yellowstone Park in the late 1980s.

Drawing on the testimonies of survivors, this account of the 1995 crash of a commuter plane chronicles the efforts of the flight crew to bring the plane down safely, the inferno that followed, and the aftermath of the tragedy for survivors.

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9780609606339, titled "Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The Tragedy and Triumph of Asa Flight 529" | 1 edition (Crown Pub, September 1, 2001), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Drawing on the testimonies of survivors, this account of the 1995 crash of a commuter plane chronicles the efforts of the flight crew to bring the plane down safely, the inferno that followed, and the aftermath of the tragedy for survivors.

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9780676793987, titled "Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The Tragedy and Triumph of Asa Flight 529" | Crown Pub, September 4, 2001, cover price $9.95

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9780792798569 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, February 1, 2002), cover price $94.95 | About this edition: Drawing on the testimonies of survivors, this account of the 1995 crash of a commuter plane chronicles the efforts of the flight crew to bring the plane down safely, the inferno that followed, and the aftermath of the tragedy for survivors.
9780743509008, titled "Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The Tragedy and Triumph of Asa Flight 529" | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, September 1, 2001), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Drawing on the testimonies of survivors, this account of the 1995 crash of a commuter plane chronicles the efforts of the flight crew to bring the plane down safely, the inferno that followed, and the aftermath of the tragedy for survivors.

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9780792725305 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, February 1, 2002), cover price $69.95
9780743505918 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, September 1, 2001), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Drawing on the testimonies of survivors, this account of the 1995 crash of a commuter plane chronicles the efforts of the flight crew to bring the plane down safely, the inferno that followed, and the aftermath of the tragedy for survivors.

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Product Description: This is the true story of Oliver Bullard Rasmussen, a U.S. Navy aircrewman who avoided capture after his plane crashed in Japan on July 14, 1945, leaving his pilot dead and him seriously wounded. He dodged the Japanese on Hokkaido for 68 days until he saw his first fellow American...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Donald J. Norton and Charles E. Yeager (foreword by)

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9780786409945 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This is the true story of Oliver Bullard Rasmussen, a U.

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Product Description: This collection of stories dramatically c hronicles the exciting and occasionally harrowing adventures of military pilots. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781557508218 | Naval Inst Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This collection of stories dramatically c hronicles the exciting and occasionally harrowing adventures of military pilots.

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Product Description: Survival for Aircrew is essential reading for any aviation personnel who might at any time fly over water or inhospitable terrain. The ability to conquer nature and survive long enough to be rescued is a skill that could have saved the lives of countless aircrew and passengers in the past, and could save many lives in the future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781840145212 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, June 1, 1999, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Survival for Aircrew is essential reading for any aviation personnel who might at any time fly over water or inhospitable terrain.

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Product Description: The book is about the United Airlines DC-10 crash landing in Sioux City,Iowa on July 19, 1989 where 112 passengers died and miraculously 184 survived. This year marks the 10th anniversary of that crash. The author is a survivor and co-founder of the Chicago support group for flight 232...read more
By Al Haynes (trans), Sara McPherson (editor), Sioux City Journal (photographer) and Joseph Trombello

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9780966981506 | Joseph Trombello, April 1, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The book is about the United Airlines DC-10 crash landing in Sioux City,Iowa on July 19, 1989 where 112 passengers died and miraculously 184 survived.

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9780966981513 | Joseph Trombello, January 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The book is about the United Airlines DC-10 crash landing in Sioux City,Iowa on July 19, 1989 where 112 passengers died and miraculously 184 survived.

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Product Description: A gripping account of three naval airmen adrift in the Pacific for 34 days.

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9781557508270 | Reprint edition (Naval Inst Pr, February 1, 1992), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A gripping account of three naval airmen adrift in the Pacific for 34 days.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786114023 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 1999), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A gripping account of three naval airmen adrift in the Pacific for 34 days.

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