One Minute to Ditch Cornelius Ryan s first book One Minute to Ditch is about a Pan American Boeing 377 Stratocruiser N1032V that successfully ditched in the Pacific Ocean March 26 1955 off the Oregon coast He had written an article about the ditching for Collier s in their December 21 1956 issue and then expanded it into the book Ryan Cornelius One Minute to Ditch Collier s Weekly December 21 1956 Ryan Cornelius 1957 One Minute to Ditch New York Ballentine 158 pages Might want to fit it in