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1) Airframe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane... At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal mid-air disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. Airframe is a nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh comes a claustrophobic thriller set over 20 hours on-board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems with her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane...
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Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
Japanese gangsters try to gain control of the Boeing aircraft company by causing its planes to crash, thereby depressing the company's stock. Two men--an American accident investigator and a Japanese police officer--join forces to learn what has caused the crashes and who is behind them. By the author of The Sword of Orion.
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In this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family — imprisoned by the Japanese—and revolutionizes modern warfare along the way.
From the knife fights and smuggling runs of his youth to his fiery days as a pioneering naval aviator, Paul Irving "Pappy" Gunn played by his own set of rules and always survived on his wits and fists....
From the knife fights and smuggling runs of his youth to his fiery days as a pioneering naval aviator, Paul Irving "Pappy" Gunn played by his own set of rules and always survived on his wits and fists....
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The founder of Scott's Cheap Flights explains why we're searching for airfare all wrong, shares the strategies that have saved his two million newsletter subscribers a collective $500 million on airfare, and presents a bold new approach for how to see the world while never overpaying for flights again.
"In normal times, travel is one of the most popular escapes, a perennial top New Year’s resolution. Although 2020 has been anything but a great...
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
A female investment banker starts up a visionary airline, taking on Wall Street, the airline industry, and an international terrorist syndicate in this electrifying thriller from New York Times–bestselling author John J. Nance The bed is so comfortable that Elizabeth Sterling sleeps through her alarm, high above the Pacific, reveling in the comforts of the most luxurious airliner ever built. It's the flagship of the newly revived Pan Am, the most...
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Series
Nancy Drew Files volume 13
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A desperate call from an old friend brings Nancy to Seattle to investigate a possible murder.
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Let's Roll! reveals what really happened on that ill-fated flight, as well as poignant glimpses of a genuine American hero. It's Todd and Lisa's story--a message of character, courage, and faith in the face of horrifying tragedy
11) Heroes of 9/11
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Ten gripping stories that reflect the countless breathtaking acts of heroism that occurred inside the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a hijacked plane. Among other amazing true accounts, you will read about the miraculous survival of the fire captain and his men who were buried alive when the north tower collapsed... the cop who dodged death twice to help save others... and the two navy officers who ran into a burning, crumbling section of the...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
The tragic events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, are seen as an example of extreme heroism. When they realized their plane had been hijacked, passengers aboard flight 93 fought the hijackers and brought the plane down in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in an attempt to save the lives of people on the ground. This book examines the events leading up to the hijacking, the heroic actions of passengers and crew, and the...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We're about to enter an area of known turbulence, so please put on your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Erika Armstrong is the first modern woman airline captain of a commercial Boeing 727 to write a book about her experiences. Women in aviation are sparse, and Erika quickly learns the humor of being locked in the cockpit with men for countless hours, the grace of suffering discrimination...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This photo-illustrated book describes the life of a Federal Air Marshal, including how they work undercover on flights to fight terrorism. Explains how they fit under the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), what it takes to get a job, and what a day in the field is like"--
20) Jet airliners
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Description
Discusses how planes fly and describes what a jet engine is, the different types of jet liners, and the duties of the ground and flight crews. Also includes instructions for making a paper airplane and an experiment with jet power.