Airline Captain Ziad Afra writes what it was like to live in Syria, as well as how he cheated death many times in the air. His stunning biography The Aviation Chronicles of Captain Zee: The Early Days starts with a flight to Yemen to deliver an arms and ammunition load. Upon reaching the destination, Captain Zee and his crew are caught up in artillery shelling. Afterward on the road, they are attacked by heavy machine gun fire. On the return leg the following night, an engine broke down while flying over a vast uninhabited desert. Despite combined navigational problems, they arrived in Cairo,...