Down in Deep Water: The ditching of ALM Antillean Airlines flight 980

On the 2nd of May 1970, a DC-9 jet, critically low on fuel and with nowhere to land, ditched into stormy waters off the US Virgin Islands, plunging 63 people into a harrowing fight to survive. Clinging to an emergency escape slide, surrounded by debris and tossed by heaving seas, the survivors held on for 90 indescribable minutes before rescuers arrived by helicopter, dragging the exhausted passengers and crew one by one from the angry Caribbean. But even before the survivors were brought back to shore, it was clear that not all had made it. Of the 63 aboard, only 40 escaped with their lives, leaving the remainder lost forever at sea, dragged to the depths along with the airplane, which — like all but one of the victims — was never located. <a href="https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/down-in-deep-water-the-ditching-of-alm-antillean-airlines-flight-980-0e2cd19970ad">Click Here</a>