Thirty-one seconds

"On a picture perfect May afternoon in 1979, Chicago businessman Louis Blaine boards a DC-10 for a flight to Los Angeles. It's just a day trip. He plans to be home around midnight -- home to his pregnant wife and his seven year-old-daughter. But the flight is doomed. Thirty-one seconds after the plane becomes airborne, it falls from the sky. Engorged with Jet fuel, it slams into the ground a mile from the airport. The earth quivers -- the smoke is visible for miles -- everyone is dead. Thirty-one seconds. No time for Louis Blaine to think about his wife, his daughter, the child to come. Only time for the picture perfect day to become a gruesome dream. And for the remnants of the Blaine family--the three of them--there would be no waking up."--Back cover.