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Hang on and Fly: A Post-War Story of Plane Crash Tragedies, Heroism, and Survival

By Tim Lake
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By Tim Lake
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Hang on and Fly. A Post-War Story of Plane Crash Tragedies, Heroism, and Survival

Passenger planes are crashing three and four times a month in 1951 just as Americans are beginning to fly. Then a loaded plane disappears in the night and can't be found. Panic and frustration reach all the way to the White House.

Twenty-six are killed in the most spectacular crash that no one heard on a mountain frosted with snow and fog. Fourteen survivors are the largest group of plane crash victims to be los...

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