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

by Tim Lake and Timothy W. Lake

Book Overview

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 lost and stranded in North America. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0996736026
• ISBN13: 9780996736022
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Lake Publishing
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 9 years and up