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.

An exploration of the "Hindenburg" disaster of 1937 in which the German airship caught fire while attempting to dock in New Jersey, claiming the life of more than thirty people.

Conway, one of four people whose plane crashed while they were fleeing a civil war in a foreign land, is rescued along with the rest of his group by a mysterious Chinese man who takes them to safety in Shangri-la, a land of peace and beauty where they are offered near immortality on the condition that they never leave.

Provides an account of the Hindenburg disaster of 1937 in which over thirty people died when the giant airship caught fire while landing in New Jersey after a three day flight from Germany. Presented in graphic novel form.

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.

Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee try to locate the body of a passenger aboard an airliner that crashed fifty years previous and the attache filled with diamonds that he was carrying in order to prove the innocence of a young man, but they are not the only ones in search of the gems.

The team travels to the forests of western China in order to locate Mya's long-lost brother, who was in a plane crash ten years earlier.

Examines the aerial disaster of the Hindenburg zeppelin from a historical, scientific, and human perspective.

When a commercial jetliner falls from the sky, it's up to Cole Sear to help the lone survivor of the crash, a little girl who is suspended in a coma. Only then will he solve the mystery of the accident. But first he has to listen to and do what the ghosts of the plane's dead passengers want him to do.

Recounts the crash of the Concorde in 2000, events leading up to the tragedy, the investigation that followed, and ramifications of the first fatal accident involving this supersonic passenger jet.