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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman returns with an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a commercial jetliner that crashes into the ocean and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside—and the extraordinary rescue operation to save them. Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to...
Author
Language
English
Description
When the roar of a low-flying plane awakens him in the middle of the night, Sheriff Winston Barnes knows something strange is happening at the nearby airfield on the coast of North Carolina. But nothing can prepare him for what he finds: a large airplane has crash-landed and is now sitting sideways on the runway, and there are no signs of a pilot or cargo. When the body of a local man is discovered—shot dead and lying on the grass near the crash...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
On June 1st, 2009, Flight AF447, an Air France Airbus A330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all 228 lives. How could a state-of-the-art airliner with elaborate electronic safety and navigation features and a faultless safety record simply vanish without trace? NOVA assembles a team of seasoned pilots, engineers and safety experts to examine the evidence that emerged in the weeks following this...
6) The note 3
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
After a tragic plane crash, a local journalist discovers a note that she believes was written by one of the passengers. She seeks the note's intended recipient, but the journey is more revealing of her own past.
7) Arctic
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a man becomes stranded after an airplane crash, he must decide whether to remain in his makeshift camp or to venture through the unknown in hopes of survival.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The tragic story of the British airship R101-which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later-has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty's Airship, historian S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half...
11) The burnt house
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious plane crashes, it leaves the charred remains of four unidentified bodies. As LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker and his wife Rina investigate, they soon must race to unravel crucial clues before something sinister happens to anyone else.
Author
Series
Steadfast series volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
14) Apex predator
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The journey through the rift becomes even rockier as the survivors are forced to take to the water, crossing a vast deepwater basin on improvised boats. To make it, Molly and the others must work together, but a rift of a different kind is forming among the survivors. If they aren't careful, it could eat them alive.
15) The changeling
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When we first meet Pearl--young in years but advanced in her drinking--she's on the lam, sitting at a hotel bar in Florida, throwing back gin and tonics with her infant son cradled in the crook of her arm. But her escape is brief, and the relief she feels at having fled her abusive husband, and the Northeastern island his family calls home, doesn't last for long. Soon she's being shepherded back. The island, for Pearl, is a place of madness and pain,...
16) Lost Horizon
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1936-]
Language
English
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Description
Following a plane crash in the Himalayan mountains, a lost group of Englishmen and Americans stumble upon the dream-like, utopian world of Shangri-La, wehre life is eternal and civilization refined.
17) Crashers
Author
Series
Crashers volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a passenger plane, a Vermeer One Eleven, slams into the ground outside Portland, Oregon, a team--the "crashers"-- is quickly assembled to investigate the cause. Usually the team has months to determine the cause of a crash. But this time it's different. This time, the plane was brought down deliberately, without leaving a trace, and this was only a trial run.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
1954: Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday Bombscanisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potencyvanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988: Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised the Titanic, discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03. But two deadly canisters are missing. Theyre in the hands of a terrorist group. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleship seventy-five...
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