aircraft accidents

Twelve-year-old Alex is rescued from a plane crash by the Yanomami Indians of Venezuela and spends several weeks in the Amazon jungle with them, learning and appreciating their way of life.

Asks the reader to choose the path of the plot in a story about an airplane that crashes in the Baja peninsula, leaving its passengers in danger.

Recounts the crash of Korean Air Line flight 007, from Alaska to Seoul, where the plane veered off course into Soviet air space, and was shot down by the Russian air force.

Recounts the ghostly encounters people claim to have had with the pilots and flight engineer who died in a plane crash in 1972.

Presents anecdotes from the survivors of U.S. Airways flight 1549, which landed in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, with a discussion of the heroism, rescue efforts, and other details of the incident.

Dramatizes the efforts of coach Jack Lengyel to rebuild the football program at West Virginia's Marshall University after thirty-seven team members, coaches, and others were killed in an airplane crash in November 1970.

Flight 981 took off from Paris and crashed nine minutes later. It was the first crash of a fully loaded wide body jet and the largest air disaster in aviation history.