When USAir Flight 1549 ditched in the Hudson River, many in the media were claiming that it was the first time a jet aircraft had made a successful water landing. What they didn�t know is that another jet aircraft had made a successful ditching almost forty years earlier, and it wasn�t in a river. This ditching took place in the Caribbean Sea. And unlike Flight 1549, rescuers didn�t show up in minutes. It was an hour-and-a-half before the first rescue helicopter appeared. Who survived and how is explained in chilling detail in this amazing true story.

Author Emilio Corsetti finally uncovers the truth about this little known aviation accident and retraces the links in the error chain that led to the first and only open-water ditching of a commercial jet. It�s an airline disaster and rescue at sea story all rolled into one. It�s nonfiction at its best.