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Author Mondor, Colleen Catherine.

Title The map of my dead pilots : the dangerous game of flying in Alaska / Colleen Mondor.

Publication Info. Guilford, CT : Lyons Press, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  387.7092 MONDOR    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  387.7092 MONDOR    Check Shelf
Description xii, 242 pages : map ; 23 cm
Contents The truth about flying -- The question of why -- On the ramp -- Onto the ice -- Flying cold -- The dead body contract -- Finding the walls of a box canyon -- On the other side of the mountains -- Mercy flight -- Dropping through a hole in the sky -- With Saint-Ex in South America -- The good pilot -- The worst cargo in the world -- The map of my dead pilots -- Getting lost -- What happended to Bryce Donovan -- Looking for Ben Eielson -- One hundred crash stories -- Our missing aviator -- Sam's story -- Reckoning.
Summary Accompanied by the history of Alaskan aviation, this candid and gripping expose of small plane piloting in the wildest territory of the United States takes readers into a world that demands a close communion with extreme physical danger and emotional toughness.
Subject Bush pilots -- Alaska -- Biography.
Bush pilots -- Alaska -- Death.
Bush pilots -- Alaska -- Psychology.
Aircraft accidents -- Alaska.
Aircraft accidents -- Human factors -- Alaska.
Risk-taking (Psychology) -- Alaska.
Bush flying -- Alaska.
Aeronautics, Commercial -- Social aspects -- Alaska.
Aeronautics, Commercial -- Alaska -- Psychological aspects.
Alaska -- Biography.
ISBN 9780762773619
0762773618
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