Isbn: 9798172377495 - what the sea kept (3 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A routine carrier approach becomes a catastrophe when a Navy C-2 loses an engine and the failed propeller refuses to behave the way everyone has been taught it should. The crew does everything right. It is not enough.The aircraft ditches in the northwestern Indian Ocean and disappears beneath thousands of feet of water before rescuers can reach it. At Naval Air Force Atlantic, Vice Admiral Eleanor Reddick gives two officers a simple order with an almost impossible consequence: bring them home.What follows is not a combat mission but something more difficult to organize - a civilian deep-ocean recovery ship, an international route through contested waters, Navy salvage specialists, investigators, Marines, engineers, and a crew of merchant mariners who answer to a captain the Americans do not command.And somewhere on the seabed lies more than a lost aircraft. It holds the evidence of what happened in those final seconds - and of how a failure once considered serious came to be treated as something that no longer needed to be practiced.>Recover the people. Recover the aircraft. Recover the truth.…