Final Approach - Northwest Airlines Flight 650, Tragedy and Triumph

Name: Final Approach - Northwest Airlines Flight 650, Tragedy and Triumph
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ISBN: 9781460951996

ISBN-10: 1460951999

ISBN-13: 9781460951996

Edition: N/A

Authors: Lyle Prouse

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This is the story of the first airline pilot ever arrested and sent to prison for flying under the influence. He was fired by his airline, stripped of his FAA licenses, tried, convicted, and sent to Federal prison. This was a first. It had never occurred before.Lyle Prouse came from a WWII housing project in Kansas and an alcoholic family where both parents died as a result of alcoholism. He rose through the ranks of the United States Marine Corps from private to captain, from an infantryman to a fighter pilot. He made his way to the pinnacle of commercial aviation, airline captain...then lost it all.Today he is a recovering alcoholic with nearly twenty-two years sobriety. This story…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date: 11/29/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034