Tiger in the Sea, Eric Lindner
Tiger in the Sea, Eric Lindner
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Tiger in the Sea
The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

Author: Eric Lindner

Narrator: Gary Bennett

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/01/2021


Synopsis

September 1962: On a moonless night over the raging Atlantic Ocean, a thousand miles from land, the engines of Flying Tiger flight 923 to Germany burst into flames, one by one. Pilot John Murray didn't have long before the plane crashed headlong into the twenty-foot waves at 120 mph.

As the four flight attendants donned life vests, collected sharp objects, and explained how to brace for the ferocious impact, sixty-eight passengers clung to their seats. They all expected to die.

Murray radioed out "Mayday" as he attempted to fly down through gale-force winds into the rough water, hoping the plane didn't break apart when it hit the sea.

Only a handful of ships could pick up the distress call so far from land. Dozens of other ships and planes from nine countries abruptly changed course or scrambled from Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, and Cornwall, all racing to the rescue—but they would take hours, or days, to arrive.

Could Murray do what no pilot had ever done—"land" a commercial airliner at night in a violent sea without everyone dying? And if he did, would rescuers find any survivors before they drowned or died from hypothermia in the icy water?

About Eric Lindner

In 2009, Eric Lindner became a hospice volunteer, helping patients cope with the reality of dying. His book Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of Life was critically acclaimed by leading doctors and caregivers, NPR, BBC, Washington Independent Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist's Rebecca Vnuk, who named it one of 2013's five best memoirs. Since 2015 the attorney, businessman, and DC native has been teaching Ethics in Action at Georgetown University, a course that dissects the NASA Challenger disaster. He's married to Captain Murray's daughter; they live on California's Central Coast.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Art on May 24, 2021

I finished reading Eric’s book and as a person who was on that flight Eric came as close as you could without being there yourself. Through many years of research, interviews and fact checking ( documents had to be difficult to come by because they were hidden) Eric did a great job bring recognition......more

Goodreads review by Joe on January 08, 2024

I liked the first part of the book better; that dealt with the actual events of the ditching. The second half of the book dealt with the lives of the survivors after they got back to their homes or eventual homes. It is a wonder that anybody was able to survive the conditions they found themselves in......more

Goodreads review by Paul on October 08, 2021

Excellent and informative history of the crash. Well researched but the plight of some individuals that perished is not touched on at all.......more