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In 1995 twenty-nine people boarded a small commuter plane expecting nothing more than a short flight to their destination. This is their story.

Soon after taking off a propeller blade shattered, destroying the engine and leaving them unable to stay airborne. They hit the ground nine minutes and twenty seconds later.

All of us have wondered, however fleetingly, what would happen if something went wrong. How would I feel? What would I do? What would others do? Would I survive?

Nineteen people on board that day did survive and the author draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with them, their families and the families of those who died to create an intensely moving, unputdownable real-life drama.

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