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Writer Rinker Buck looks back to a summer when he and his brother, at ages fifteen and seventeen, respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California. "Terrific." —The Chicago Sun-Times In the summer of 1966, Rinker and Kernahan Buck, two teenaged boys...

For more than a century, plane crashes have been among the scariest catastrophes imaginable. The toll on human life is devastating. Yet, as this fascinating book reveals, there are some who defy the odds and survive the unsurvivable. In this riveting collection of true stories from sole survivors, we get an inside look at their harrowing ordeal that changed their lives forever. We get a glimpse of their lives before and after the accident, explore the possible causes of their plane crash, and dive into the haunting yet fascinating details of the fateful day they fell from the sky.