Gary M Pomerantz: Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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In August 1995, twenty-six passengers and a crew of three boarded a commuter plane in Atlanta headed for Gulfport, Mississippi. Shortly after takeoff, an explosion resulted in a mangled engine lodged against the left wing. Nine minutes, twenty seconds later, the crippled plane crashed in a west Georgia hayfield--nine minutes, twenty seconds in which author Gary M. Pomerantz takes readers deep inside the hearts and minds of the people aboard.

Originally published in September 2001, just a week before the tragedy of 9 / 11, Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds remains, a quarter century later, a psychologically illuminating real-life drama about how ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. Each of us has wondered what we would do to survive a life-threatening situation. Would I survive? Would I act to save others in need or only myself? Would others try to save me? How would I be affected by the experience? Judging by what is revealed in Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds--with a new preface and epilogue based on interviews with survivors twenty-five years after the book's original publication--the answers are optimistic.