The Ditching and Rescue of ALM Flight 980
by
Emilio Corsetti III
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
On May 2, 1970, a DC-9 jet with 57 passengers and a crew of six departed from New York's JFK International Airport en route to the tropical island of St. Maarten, but four hours and 34 minutes later the flight ended in the shark-infested waters of the Caribbean. It was, and remains, the only open-water...