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Credit: Citizen of the World Project
When his only engine failed, spraying oil on the heavily fueled Piper Malibu Mirage’s hot exhaust and windshield while flying over the 60-nm-wide Strait of Malacca, Robert DeLaurentis (see photo) knew one of four outcomes would follow: He would crash into the sea and die; he would crash and destroy...
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