Twelve miles over the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger jet. The airline flight crew is usually crippled or dead. Now, defying both character and man, three survivors must accomplish the impossible. Land the aircraft. From grasp storyteller Nelson DeMille and professional pilot Thomas Stop comes Maydaythe classic bestseller that packages a supersonic surprise every minute….the most terrifyingly realistic air disaster thriller ever. Like a growing tidal wave, the escaping surroundings was gathering momentum. A teenaged about Mayday lady in aisle 18, seat D, close to the port-side aisle, her chair dislocated by the original impact, suddenly discovered herself gripping her chair track on to the floor, her overturned chair still strapped to her body. The seatbelt failed and the chair shot down the aisle. She dropped her grip and was dragged after it. Her eyes were filled with horror as she dug her nails into the carpet, as the race air flow pulled her toward the yawning opening that led outside. Her cries were unheard by even those people who sat hardly inches away from her struggle. The sound from the escaping air was so noisy that it was no more decipherable as sound, but appeared instead a good thing pounding at the people in their seats……