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CHAPTERS 1 & 2
The Amelia Earhart Mystery (Howland Island, 1937)
Captain Coolly Announces No Engines Working (Jakarta, 1982)
Pilot Struggling with Hijacker Ditches off Beach (Comoros, 1996)
A330 Glides Eighty Miles Over Atlantic to an Island (Azores, 2001)
Conscientious Crew Forget How Much Fuel Left (Portland, 1978)
Miscalculation Meant Only Half the Fuel Loaded (Gimli, 1983)
TACA Deadstick Landing on Grass Levee (New Orleans, 1988)
Avianca 52 Copilot Failed to Say “Emergency” (New York, 1990)
BA 777 from Beijing Loses Thrust on Late Final (Heathrow, 2008)
CHAPTERS 3 & 4
“Safest Airline’s” 100 mph Overrun (Bangkok, 1999)
Midair Collisions at Grand Canyon and New York City (1956, 1960)
PSA 182 727 Collides with Cessna (San Diego, 1978)
Worst-ever Midair Collision (New Delhi, 1996)
Two Japan Airlines Jumbos in Near Miss (Japan, 2001)
Distraught Father Assassinates Controller (Lake Constance, 2002)
CHAPTERS 5 & 6
Worst-ever Multi-Aircraft Disaster (Tenerife, 1977)
Worst-ever Single-aircraft Disaster (Japan, 1985)
CHAPTER 7
737 Stops with Fire Upwind (Manchester, UK, 1985)
737 Pilots Shut Down Wrong Engine (Kegworth, UK, 1989)
The TWA-800 Controversy (JFK Outbound, 1996)
Fragmenting Tire Dooms Supersonic Concorde (Paris-CDG, 2000)
CHAPTER 8 & 9
Weary Colgan Air Pilots Gossip Before Stall (Buffalo, NY, 2009)
Was EgyptAir Flight 990 a Matter of Revenge? (JFK Outbound, 1999)
CHAPTERS 10 & 11
CHAPTERS 12 & 13
CHAPTER 14
Teen Survives Two-Mile Free Fall in Just Her Seat (Peru, 1971)
CHAPTERS 15 & 16
US Warship Downs Iranian Airliner (Persian Gulf, 1988)
CHAPTERS 17 & 18
AF447 Pilots Turned Glitch into Disaster (South Atlantic, 2009)
Was Disappearance of MH370 Almost the Perfect Crime? (2014)
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