Robert Sabbag: Down Around Midnight

Around midnight on June 17, 1979, Air New England Flight 248, en route from New York, crashed into the woods on Cape Cod. The pilot was killed. The first officer and several passengers, struggling to escape the wreckage of the aircraft, clung to life for an hour and a half in the wilderness before rescuers found them. They survived with trauma both physical and emotional. Among them was Robert Sabbag, the author of Snowblind and other works of nonfiction.
Down Around Midnight is Sabbag’s gripping account of the crash and of his candid attempt to come to terms with its aftermath. He tracks down his fellow survivors, seeing them for the first time since they saved one another’s lives in the darkness thirty years before. He talks to firefighters, hospital staff, family members, and others who were present on the night of the tragedy, weaving the narrative between past and present to create a thrilling and affecting story of survival and recovery.

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• woods
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• england
• cape
• cod
• survival

[spitfireikx]

my father, Alan Bowles, was one of the medics the responded that night.

[pdm3utube]

Suzanne - my sister - is the most special person in the world. In my view, the event documented in this book (which I look forward to reading) created a crucible for the final polishing of her extra-ordinary character - unabashedly positive, proactive, life-affirming, and a gift to all around her.

[szdoroff]

Suzanne is an extraordinary person and I am continuously in awe of how she lives every day joyfully to the fullest while overcoming challenges that would paralyze a lesser person.

[carolemourad1]

I can't wait to read this book

[carolemourad1]

Sue is an amazing young woman.....She is always positive no matter what situation comes her way. She will always be my hero.

[77Lynne1]

Suzanne hasn't changed a bit....she has continued to face every challenge life brings her with a brave and graceful spirit.