Editorial Reviews
Review
"Gander is a story of tragedy and tribute that resonates louder today more than it did when Arrow Air Flight R1285JW blew apart December 12th, 1985, carrying 256 souls (248 American Soldiers from the famed 101st Airborne Division and 8 Arrow Air crew members).Author Saul M.Montes-Bradley tells a chilling and historic account of the events leading upto the tragedy, organizes and then describes details never seen since the investigation, and honestly describes the enemy we still face that claimed responsibility and likely caused this tragedy.
In modern times, we face a very dangerous enemy, one who has deep ties to enemies we faced in our past and somestill trying to defeat our way of life.
Gander is an easy to read and understand book that screams out for a more serious debate on the true nature of the tragedy itself, if not to simply pay tribute to the fallen, then to better prepare readers to comprehend how political posturing can lead to future tragedies that could have even greater untold consequences.
Read this book!"
MichaelT. Flynn, Lt. Gen. (R), U.S. Army
From the Author
For thirty years now, I have witnessed the botched investigations conducted by Canadian and US authorities, more an exercise in political posturing and ass-covering by an endless supply of pencil pushers and venal bureaucrats than any serious effort to discover the causes of the crash.I hope this book leads to a better understanding of the events that led to that tragedy, and to the nature of the terrorist organization that caused it.
From the Back Cover
"Arrow Air flight R1285JW was chartered under contract with the Department of Defense to ferry troops from the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO), established in 1982 to guarantee the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt and headquartered at Rome, with two bases in the Sinai Peninsula, the South base at Sharm-el-Sheik, a small town a little over 300 miles southeast of Cairo, and a North base at el-Arish, a hamlet near the Gaza strip. For nearly two years, we had been doing flights to and from there, but this one would be different from the beginning."About the Author
Once a consultant to the Administrator of the UN Development Programme and Flight Attendant for Arrow Air, Saul M. Montes-Bradley II went on to become General Manager for AER Airlines and eventually Director and General Manager of Aeroposta Airlines, the first privately owned major carrier in Argentina since the 1950s. Back in the US, he then spent 17 years in Wall Street and is now a genealogist and researcher living with his family in Virginia.For nearly thirty years, he has wondered if there would ever be a serious investigation of the disaster at Gander, only to see how the willful blindness that marred the initial investigation continues to guide a misguided policy that has only enabled and strengthened Islamic National Socialist movements in the Middle East and around the world.
Montes-Bradley is the author of five extensive genealogies of New England families with branches around the world; two reference books on the Dissident cemeteries in Buenos Aires, Argentina; one of comparative religion and two of early Spanish history and the Conquest of America; and is a recognized lecturer and political analyst with appearances in media outlets in North and South America.
Product details
- Publisher : TOBF Press; First edition (October 21, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 318 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0985963255
- ISBN-13 : 978-0985963255
- Item Weight : 15 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.72 x 9 inches