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Adak: The Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586

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Within the tradition of significant tales of fellows against the ocean, Adak offers a compelling take a look at courage and commitment Within the face of certain tragedy. Alfa Foxtrot 586 used to be a P-3 Orion on station on a sensitive Cold War mission off the Kamchatka Peninsula on 26 October 1978. When a propeller malfunction became an engine fire, the pilot used to be 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 crucial three rafts with it. Thirteen men launched the opposite rafts, the smallest of which–terribly overcrowded–soon started to leak, threatening the nine men aboard. This account of the flight crew’s desperate battle against the ocean, and the heroic efforts to rescue them provide an engrossing true story of survival.

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