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Unremembered

A girl, estimated to be sixteen, awakens with amnesia in the wreckage of a plane crash she should not have survived and taken into foster care, and the only clue to her identity is a mysterious boy who claims she was part of a top-secret science experiment.

My brother's keeper

2000
An up-and-coming musician gets into a fateful helicopter crash with his twin brother--a keeper of government secrets--and survives only after a transplant gives him half of his brother's brain.

The Hindenburg explosion

core events of a disaster in the air
2014
Explains the Hindenburg disaster, including its chronology, causes, and lasting effects.

The map of my dead pilots

the dangerous game of flying in alaska
2013
Explores the history of Alaskan aviation, discussing small plane piloting in the wildest territory of the United States.

Jump, damn it, jump!

memoir of a downed B-17 pilot in World War II
2006
Edward Logan recounts his experiences serving as a B-17 pilot in the 15th Air Force in Italy during World War II, chronicling his two years of training, entry into combat, and years as a bomber pilot in Europe, and focusing on an operation that resulted in his plane going down behind enemy lines, forcing Logan and his crew to evade enemy troops and return to their base.

Static

2006
A charter plane crash on a deserted island forces a disparate group of teenagers to bury their petty jealousies and cooperate in an attempt to survive.

Air disasters

2012
Looks at the science of air crashes and disasters, highlighting such major instances as 9/11 and TWA Flight 800.

The naked pilot

the human factor in aircraft accidents
1995

The disappearance of Flight 19

1980
An account of the 1945 flight of five Avenger torpedo bombers and their crews, who disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle.

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