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For eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The entire disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated...

Airport '77 : a 747 is trapped underwater in the Bermuda Triangle. It's a race against time and the elements to save the passengers and the crew.

A year after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the authors, scrutinizing the theories the media and politicians claim are the "most likely" reasons the plane crashed, demand the truth.

Four men, including the author's politician father, the pilot, a cop, and a handcuffed criminal, fight to stay alive in the northern Alberta wilderness after surviving a commuter plane crash that killed six others.

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.

When an airplane crashes into the village gazebo, killing the pilot and Tricia's friend Deborah, Tricia has reason to believe the crash was more than an accident.

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,...

When the small plane which his uncle allows him to fly tumbles out of control, fourteen-year-old Jay relies on God's help to land the aircraft safely.

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.

It's been ten years since Dr. Bill Brockton created the Body Farm the world's first postmortem research facility dedicated to advancing the frontiers of forensic science and the researcher is at the pinnacle of his career. Under his leadership, the University of Tennessee's forensic anthropology program has become the most prominent in the world, and Brockton's skills and knowledge are in high demand among top law enforcement. Calling him in for a...