Finding Carla: The Story That Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue

by Ross Nixon

Book Overview

In March 1967, a Cessna 195 flew from Oregon towards San Francisco carrying a family of three: Alvin Oien, Sr. (the pilot), his wife Phyllis and step-daughter Carla Corbus. Due to worse-than-predicted weather, it went down in the Trinity Mountains of California only eight miles from a highway and beneath a busy commercial airway. This was before radio-beacon type emergency locators were required equipment for airplanes; the family survived the crash...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1619543435
• ISBN13: 9781619543430
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Aviation Supplies & Academics
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"