Tag: Antillean

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 ...