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61) Departure
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"The world's past and future rests in the hands of five unwitting strangers in this definitive edition of A. G. Riddle's time-traveling, mind-bending speculative thriller. En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind.Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the...
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Two episodes of the television series I shouldn't be alive. In Lost in the snow, a family is caught in a blizzard and must survive for days with no provisions and little hope for rescue. Jaws of death: after his plane crashes on an African game reserve, an injured pilot's only refuge from predators is his wrecked, fuel-soaked plane, which could ignite at any moment.
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Presents an account of the crash of a commuter plane headed from Atlanta to Gulfport, Mississippi in August 1995, tracing the attitudes and actions of the passengers and crew in the time between they became aware they were going to crash through the aftermath of the disaster.
64) Trapped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
The day the blizzard stated, no one knew that it was goin to keep snowing for a week. That for those in its path, it would become not just a matter of keeping warm, but of staying alive. Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
'On the evening of December 4, 1978, Rocky Mountain Airways Flight 217 departed Steamboat Springs, Colorado bound for Denver with twenty-two souls on board. Less than an hour later, the flight was forced down on Buffalo Pass at an altitude of 10,500 feet when it encountered severe icing conditions and downdrafts created by the winds of a mountain wave. The tragic accident triggered one of the most intense search and rescue efforts in Rocky Mountain...
Author
Series
Argeneau series volume 33
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Jet Lassiter likes being a pilot for Argeneau Inc. Perks include travelling to exotic locations and meeting interesting people, even if they are the blood-sucking kind. He's living the good life, until his plane goes down in the mountains and four of his passengers are gravely injured. They need blood to heal, and Jet is the only source. Quinn Peters never wanted to be immortal. Once a renowned heart surgeon, she was turned against her will and now...
67) The Snow Walker
Pub. Date
2005
Description
When a plane carrying Charlie Halliday and a sick, Inuit woman, Kanaalay, crashes hundreds of miles from civilization, they are at the mercy of nature's worst. While search parties try to locate the place, Charlie decides to trek overland promising the woman he will return with help. Despite her sickness, she follows Charlie. Kanaalay teaches him the skills he will need in order to survive and he comes to respect her wisdom and her spirit.
Author
Description
"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...
69) Lost: Season 2
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
While Jack, Kate, and Locke investigate what's inside the hatch, the "tailies" are found. These survivors are from the tail of the plane and include tough girl Ana-Lucia and the spiritual and mysterious Mr. Eko. Most of the story, which continues 44 days after the crash, focuses on the main conflict between the survivors and the Others, with the continued clash between faith and science being thematic in certain episodes. While some mysteries are...
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The way home. The spires. They've been looming in the distance, watching silently as the young survivors of Aero Horizon Flight 16 crossed a gauntlet of surreal and dangerous landscapes. After weeks of hardship, Molly and her friends have reached the eerie structure they spotted at the start of their journey, all in a desperate bid that it will provide answers about their ordeal...and perhaps a way home. Here the survivors will finally learn the truth...
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Formats
Description
"When Izzy Astor gets on a plane to go home, she isn’t expecting much. It’s the usual holiday travel experience: busy, crowded, stressful. Then she spots her seatmate, who is anything but ordinary. Nate Phelan sports dark hair, blue eyes, and a deliciously rugged charm that Izzy can’t resist. Their connection is undeniable. Izzy never believed in destiny before, but she does now. Just ninety seconds after takeoff, their plane goes down in the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Clementine Haas wakes up from a coma in an Irish hospital, suffering from complete amnesia. She is told that she is the lone survivor of a plane crash and that she has a father coming from America to get her. Clementine decides to escape from a life she can't remember and start a new life with the help of a man named Kieran O'Connell. But the lies she has to tell to maintain her new life grow, and she is soon forced to reconcile her new life with...
75) Chilled
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Brynn Nealey, a forensic nurse on a search and rescue team, faces a dangerous blizzard to find survivors of a plane crash in the Cascade Mountains. She is joined by Alex Kinton, a former US Marshal, who wishes to find the man who killed his brother, and then return the favor. What will happen to Alex's savage instincts when he finally has the opportunity to confront his brother's killer?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Peru, Christmas Eve, 1970. It was supposed to be a routine flight, carrying 86 passengers across the Andes Mountains and home for the holiday. But high above the Amazon rainforest, a roiling storm engulfs the plane. Lightning strikes. A deafening whoosh sweeps through the cabin. And suddenly, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke is alone. The plane has vanished. She is strapped to her seat and plunging 3,500 feet to the forest floor. On Christmas Day, she...