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161) Miss Wyoming
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
162) Deception plan
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Pocket Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Colonel Ed Coffin is sent to South Korea, the land of his birth, to lead the most important and grim investigation of his career: a secret U-2 plane has crashed under highly suspicious circumstances. A former U-2 squadron commander, Coffin is teamed up with his former lover, the irrepressible OSI investigator Marva "Mother" Hubbard, and together they learn that the plane's pilot was specifically targeted for death-but why? Navigating a geopolitical...
163) Sully
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain, Chesley Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career.
164) The Purple plain
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After his wife is killed during the Blitz, neurotic and suicidal Squadron Leader Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck) is bent on achieving one thing in the war: his own death. Fellow airmen see him as hostile, incommunicative and prone to nightmares and anxiety attacks. But when Forrester's plane crash-lands in enemy territory, he realizes that he must save himself in order to guide his two injured companions to safety. As they cross the Burmese desert,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestad's childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him--and ultimately saved his life.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story, fourteen-year-old Werner Franz works as a cabin boy aboard the German zeppelin, the Hindenburg, and resourcefully survives its fatal crash"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (690 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Gamera, the giant monster: A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathetic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.
Gamera vs. Barugon: After a treacherous expedition to retrieve a giant opal, disaster strikes as the opal...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Caliber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xi, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The forgotten story of American war hero Eddie Rickenbacker's crash landing in the Pacific during World War II, and his incredible 23-day crusade to keep his crew alive"--
171) Broken arrow
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1870, and former Union soldier Tom Jeffords is recruited to remove a tribe of Apache warriors from a U.S. Mail delivery route by any means necessary. Jeffords chooses peace instead of more killings and decides to learn the Apache way of life. He agrees to a peace treaty with Apache chief Cochise and marries a beautiful Native American woman. Tragedy strikes after the settlers break the peace treaty, but now it's Cochise trying to stop...
Author
Series
Raisa Jordan thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When People?s Republic Flight 91 crashes in northeastern Ukraine with a U.S. diplomatic agent onboard, U.S. Diplomatic Security Service Agent Raisa Jordan is sent to investigate. The agent was escorting a prisoner home from Guangzhou, China, along with sensitive documents, and it quickly becomes apparent that the plane was intentionally downed. Was it to silence the two Americans onboard?
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"'Mommy burned up.' On a cloudy day in August 2003, Grace and Lily Pearson, 4 and 3, were flying in their uncle's plane along with their mother on their way to their grandpa's birthday party near Lake Superior, when Lily noticed the trees out the window were growing close; so close she could almost touch them. Before the trees screamed into the cabin, Grace had the strange sensation of falling through clouds. A story of tragedy, survival, and justice,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
April 12, 1945. A fleet of American B-29 bombers flew toward Japan. Their mission: burn the cities, factories, and military bases of the Japanese empire, forcing an unconditional surrender. On board the City of Los Angeles a phosphorus bomb detonated inside the plane. Staff Sergeant Henry E. "Red" Erwin absorbed the blast of burning phosphorus, threw the still-flaming bomb overboard, and collapsed from the third-degree burns over much of his body....
175) Crash of Flight 447
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
176) Flight
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
DVD and Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 DVD and 1 Blu-ray (138 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
A seasoned airline pilot, who miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who are what was really at fault and what really happened on the plane.
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A skilled mechanic in 1930s Germany is offered a job on the most magnificent airship ever built, the Hindenberg. But dangers from flammable gas, storms and lightning are there. Follows the airship as it bursts into flame and investigates the cause of the disaster.
178) The Hindenburg
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Pub
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the development and early flights of airships and the disastrous explosion of the passenger airship, Hindenberg, at a New Jersey airfield on May 6, 1937, in which thirty-six people were killed.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 363 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Final destination: While boarding for a cross-country flight with friends, Alex has a premonition of the plane crashing. When he causes a ruckus and gets kicked off the flight, he and his friends watch in horror as the plane crashes, but Alex and his friends learn that they were fated to die on board the airplane, a fate that hunts them down one-by-one.
Final destination 2: A teen with mild precognitive powers prevents a gruesome highway accident...
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