Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 (A Novel)

Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane floods. Twelve passengers remain trapped inside as the aircraft sinks more than two hundred feet below the surface. Engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are among those trapped, waist-deep in water and fighting for survival. On the surface, an elite rescue team led by professional diver Chris Kent—Shannon's mother and Will's soon-to-be ex-wife—must coordinate with Will to devise a rescue plan. The sealed airplane teeters on the edge of an undersea cliff, and time and oxygen are running out. Drowning follows a family's desperate struggle to save themselves and the other passengers trapped with them as they face impossible odds.