{"product_id":"airmen-would-not-die-0399122648","title":"Airmen Would Not Die","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0399122648\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Random House Books for Young Readers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStranger and even more compelling than his best-selling \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost of Flight 401\u003c\/i\u003e, journalist John G. Fuller turns his talents to the historic crash of the great British dirigible R101, the luxury lighter-than-air behemoth that was to revolutionize travel in the 1930s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The complex and absolutely spell-binding tale begins in 1928 when a monoplane carrying famed World War I ace Captain Raymond Hinchliffe and his copilot, the flamboyant heiress-actress Elsie Mackay, vanishes without a trace over the stormy Atlantic. As news of the disappearance makes front-page headlines around the world, British workers race to complete the largest and most advanced airship yet designed, the monumental R101. Neither medium Eileeen Garrett's terrifying pre-vision of a dirigible tragedy, nor an even more fearful warning from the dead captain Hinchliffe to another mystic, Mrs. Earl, are held as grounds for delaying the much-publicized launch of the R101 for India. Finally, in a seance that includes both women and the world-famous author Conan Doyle, Hinchliffe warns the navigator of the R101 of its various structural problems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Despite these warnings, the 777-foot R101 takes off on schedule - and plunges to the ground on the French side of the Channel, killing all but six of the fifty-four aboard. But the disaster does not mark the end of this mind-boggling tale. Two days later, through another seance, the commander of the ill-fated airship recounts in horrible detail the anguished end of the R101 and its crew. Bristling with suspense and astonishing evidence concerning the validity of psychic phenomena, \u003ci\u003eThe Airmen Who Would Not Die\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting account of a human tragedy and the superhuman events surrounding it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51550487413024,"sku":"NEW0399122648","price":50.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":51550487445792,"sku":"USED0399122648","price":8.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91bCIWiESQL.jpg?v=1785788018","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/airmen-would-not-die-0399122648","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}