The passengers of an airline survived because they were in the air at the time of a nuclear blast!. The plane flew to Antarctica because it was safe, I believe!.
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Does this ring any bells for anyone!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Is this the book you are looking for!?!? The book is "Down to a Sunless Sea" (1979) by David Graham!. It's available from Amazon!.com: http://www!.amazon!.com/gp/product/0709178!.!.!. (Purchasing from Amazon!.com via one of our links helps support this site)!. There's also a later edition that reportedly has a different ending: http://www!.amazon!.com/gp/product/0449211!.!.!. Various descriptions of the book: "A souped up 747 with 600 passengers is in mid flight from New York to Great Britain when World War III starts!. After they find an island airfield that wasnt vaporized, they face a new threat-Nuclear Winter!. Their only choice is to fly from the Canary Islands to Antarctica where there are clear skies, the American Research Facility at McMurdo Sound and enough supplies to last until things settle down!.!.!." "British passenger jet pilot Jonah Scott lands in New York City about 1983 in the midst of a United States that cannot find or buy enough oil with its ruined currency, has urban lawlessness and poverty, and is about to be destroyed by the Soviet Union and China after a) terrorists poison Israel's water supply and b) Israel executes a nuclear retailatory strike and c) the other two superpowers want to rule the world without America!.!.!. The aircraft can't find a landing spot and only a chance sighting of a NATO base in the Azores hit by a neutron and not an H bomb lets the plane and passengers land to refuel!. A naval officer in the Falklands dies of radiation poisoning to inform Scott that McMurdo base at the South Pole has plenty of food and a nuclear reactor so all 600 on board can fly to safety without needing to carry food and fuel: meanwhile, a Soviet military transport of civilians lands, much to the initial tension of the SAS soldiers with Scott, because it could have been a military team to take the base!.!.!. The combined Soviet, British, and American survivors work to continue humanity while Jonah Scott finds a new love!." "In the early 1980s, the United States collapses economically from lack of oil!.!.!. Shortly after leaving New York in late 1985 with a load of mostly refugees on board, Scott and company receive a message that all out nuclear war has commenced!. After all regular landing options are extinguished in nuclear fireballs, Scott manages to land at a NATO airbase in the Azores that has only been partially destroyed in a netron bomb attack!. Jonah and company soon discover their refuge is only temporary!. A planet wide cloud of atomic particles is slowly floating down on them!. Their only option is to fly Speedbird 262 to Antarctica where the air is clear!" "A nuclear war breaks out while a passenger jet with 600 people enroute to Europe is midway across the Atlantic!. They turn back to America only to encounter the counter-thrust from Russian missiles!. They re-divert but now where will they go!?"Www@QuestionHome@Com |