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On the afternoon of April 4, 1977, Georgia housewife Sadie Burkhalter Hurst looked out her front door to see a frantic stranger running toward her, his clothes ablaze, and, behind him, the mangled fuselage of a passenger plane that had just crashed in her yard. The plane, a Southern Airways DC-9-31, had been carrying eighty-one passengers and four crew members en route to Atlanta when it entered a massive thunderstorm cell that turned into a dangerous cocktail of rain, hail, and lightning. Forced down onto a highway, the plane cut a swath of devastation through the small town of New Hope, breaking apart and killing bystanders on the ground before coming to rest in Hurst's front yard. Ultimately, only twenty-two people survived, and urgent questions immediately arose: What caused the pilots to fly into the storm instead of away from it? Could the crash have been prevented? Southern Storm addresses these issues and more, offering an insider's look at this disaster and the systemic overha uls that followed it.

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Samme Chittum is a narrative journalist and a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship recipient who explores the intersection of current events and history. Her work has been published by The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, and The Village Voice. She is the author of the first two books in the Smithsonian Air Disasters series. Keith Sellon-Wright is a seasoned professional with a career in Hollywood spanning over thirty years. He has had the good fortune to work with some of Hollywood's seminal directors, including Christopher Guest and Spike Lee, and on some of the most important shows in television history, including Seinfeld, The West Wing, and Mad Men. Although the majority of his audiobook work is nonfiction, he enjoys narrating fiction titles as well. A proud member of SAG-AFTRA, he lives in Southern California.

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