Adak The Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586
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Adak The Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586

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Full Title

Adak The Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586
Author(s)

Andrew C A Jampoler
Edition
ISBN

9781612510743, 9781591144120, 9781591144106
Publisher

Naval Institute Press
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

In the tradition of great tales of men against the sea, Adak offers a compelling look at courage and commitment in the face of certain tragedy. Alfa Foxtrot 586 was a P-3 Orion on station on a sensitive Cold War mission off the Kamchatka Peninsula on 26 October 1978. When a propeller malfunction turned into an engine fire, the pilot was forced to ditch his turboprop into the empty, mountainous seas west of the Aleutian Islands. The aircraft went down in just ninety seconds, taking one of the three rafts with it. Thirteen men launched the other rafts, the smallest of which—terribly overcrowded—soon began to leak, threatening the nine men aboard. This account of the flight crew’s desperate battle against the sea, and the heroic efforts to rescue them provide an engrossing true story of survival.

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