Hero Marks 35th Anniversary of World's First Jumbo Jet Crash With New Book, Tour, Reunion
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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - Thomas C. Scott became one of the jumbo jet era's first hero crew members 35 years ago this Nov. 20 when he single-handedly rescued a dozen people from the first-ever fatal crash of a Boeing 747 just before the plane exploded, in Nairobi, Kenya.
[SEE Cronkite-CBS clip, hear recent audio interview with survivors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7KMLFiLtdk]
Scott, now a financial expert and Forbes.com contributor, is marking this historic tragedy with the publication of his new book, "Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt: What surviving an airline crash taught me about retirement planning" [http://www.financialseatbelt.com].
Scott compares how people react in a plane crash with how they respond to a financial crisis. Just as shock and paralysis kills airline passengers, in the recent financial crash such behavior helped destroy the retirement plans of millions. He explains why it happened and how to avoid it in the future. "Your best chance of surviving a disaster is to prepare for one."
Two of the people Scott rescued from Lufthansa Flight 540 were Carl and Renate Kahn of Dallas, TX, both German-born Jews who had escaped the Holocaust in the late 1930s as children. The Kahns live in Dallas and have agreed to be interviewed. Their teenaged daughter was traveling with them and was also saved by Scott.
The Kahns used some of the insurance money they received from the crash to found a Holocaust Museum in Dallas. Renate Kahn remembers Kristallnacht, the anti-Jewish rioting that marked the start of Hitler's Final Solution.
BOOKING DETAILS: Author Tom Scott will be in New York the week of November 16 and can be available in studio on the anniversary, Friday, Nov. 20, just before Thanksgiving. [See a clip of Scott on Forbes.com http://video.forbes.com/fvn/personalfinance/fasten-your-financia-seatbelt].
The Kahns cannot travel but would be available either by location (at home) or by studio remote from Dallas. Call Foster Winans (215) 500-1989.
Scott's book is published by Platform Press, the nonfiction imprint of Winans Kuenstler Publishing [http://www.wkpublishing.com]. "Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt" by Thomas C. Scott. ISBN: 978-0982411711.
Media Contact:
Al Martin, (773) 909-7063 amartin@whatworkscomms.com
Or: Foster Winans, Winans Kuenstler Publishing, (215) 500-1989, foster.winans@wkpublishing.com
Winans Kuenstler Publishing
47 W. Oakland Avenue
Doylestown, PA 18901
888-816-1119
Tags: airline crash, aviation accidents, survivors, hero, reunion, thanksgiving stories, holocaust survivors, financial crisis, retirement advice, behavior and finance
EDITORS, BOOKERS: Fri. Nov. 20 (pre-Thanksgiving hook)
SPECIAL INTEREST: Los Angeles, Dallas, New York, Frankfurt
/PRNewswire -- Nov. 5/
SOURCE Winans Kuenstler Publishing
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