airplane crash survival

Dr. Roberto Canessa was part of the group that survived the October 13, 1972 crash in the Andes Mountains of the Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the Old Christians rugby team. At the time he was a second-year medical student. He, along with Fernando Parrado, went for help when they realized they were not going to be rescued. They hiked across the Andes Mountains for ten days at an altitude of 16,404 feet and temperatures of twenty-two degrees below zero, and arrived in Chili where they found salvation. Together they guided a rescue party back to their founrteen friends who were still trapped on the mountain two months after the initial search for the crash had been called off. Dr. Caness went on to become a pediatric cardiologist, world-renowned for his work with newborn patients and prenatal echocardiography at the Hospital Italiano of Montevideo.

Features true stories that look at what happens when a plane is shot down and considers the question of how to decide if, and when, a passenger plane should be shot down in extreme emergencies.

"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days Below Zero recounts, for the first time, the full story of Crane's remarkable saga. In a drama of staggering resolve with moments of phenomenal luck, Crane learned to survive in the Yukon's unforgiving landscape. His is a tale of the human capacity to endure extreme conditions and intense loneliness-and emerge stronger than before. "--.

Chronicles the deadly crash of a United Airlines flight in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1989. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, describes the moments leading up to, and just after, the crash. Also offers a step-by-step look at the investigation following the crash. Includes photographs.

When the plane carrying the Junior Action News Team crash lands in Alaska, the group must try to stay alive in the wilderness.

When Michael Parson, a navigator, and Sergeant Gold, an Army interpreter, are shot down over Afghanistan while transporting an important Taliban detainee, they are forced to survive amid the dangers of the Taliban, villagers of uncertain allegiance, and an uncooperative prisoner.

Mary and Peter are stranded in the wilderness of the Australian outback. They meet an Aboriginal youth on a walking journey and he teaches them how to survive.

When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.