Table of contents : Acknowledgments Prologue: All Uphill 1. A Perfectly Routine Friday Night 2. Perpetual Motion Machine 3. The Radiating Halo 4. The Long Road 5. A Long and Grim Weekend 6. Merely Physical 7. A Perfect Flying Experience 8. Inflexible Fate 9. Jimmy Donnally Lands His Plane 10. Calculated Mayhem 11. Flight 3 Is Down 12. A Man in a Man's Body 13. The Plane That Fell 14. Somber Hymns and Cold Marble 15. Hoping Against Hope 16. Certified Bombs 17. The Plain, Black Night 18. Malaise 19. Road King 20. A Flame to Many Moths 21. Fool's Errand 22. The VIPs 23. Gleaming Silver 24. The Coin Flip 25. The Computer 26. Stranded 27. The Glamorous Life 28. I Won't Be Coming Home 29. There's No Rush 30. Caring Enough to Climb a Mountain 31. The Entire Gang Showed Up 32. Groaning Pines 33. Unfixable 34. I Still See It in My Dreams 35. The Fatal Flaw 36. The Complication 37. Just a Few Yards Apart 38. All in a Day’s Work 39. The Little Boy Was Gone 40. Flying with Full Acceptance 41. The Under Side 42. Even the Unfortunates 43. The Cream of the Crop 44. Skyrocketing 45. Mangled 46. If I Can Do It, So Can You Epilogue: High-Energy Impact Fireball: The Story in Pictures Chapter Notes Selected Bibliography About Robert Matzen