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It is a powerful blend of human drama and real-life naval operations, but unlike most books in the genre, its heroes are airmen, not seamen, and most survived their ordeal.   Originally published on the 25th anniversary of Alfa Foxtrot 586's fatal mission as a tribute to those lost, the account was written by a naval aviator who has flown the same aircraft on the same mission from the same air base. The aircraft is a P-3 Orion on station during a sensitive mission off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the north Pacific. The time is mid-day on 26 October 1978. Andy Jampoler takes readers into the cockpit of the turboprop as a propeller malfunction turns into an engine fire, eventually forcing Jerry Grigsby to ditch his patrol plane into the empty, mountainous seas west of the Aleutian Islands. His fourteen crewmembers, strapped in their seats, expect the worst, and get it. The aircraft goes down in just ninety seconds, taking one of the three rafts with it. 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