Download or read book The Last Nine Minutes written by Moira Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 3, 1973, Flight 981, a DC-10 aircraft owned and flown by Turkish Airlines and carrying 334 passengers and a crew of 12, took off from Orly airport in Paris. Nine minutes later, it crashed into the Ermenonville Forest, killing all 346 aboard. It was the first crash of a fully loaded "wide-body" jet and the largest air disaster in aviation history at that time.