Flight 232 - A Story of Disaster and Survival

On 19 July 1989, while United Airlines flight 232 wallowed drunkenly northwest of the airport at Sioux City, Iowa, hundreds of fire and rescue workers waited. The plane slammed onto the runway, broke into pieces and burst into a fireball. The rescue workers did not move: nobody could survive that crash. And then people began walking out of the field lining the runway. Miraculously, 184 of 296 passengers lived-138, unhurt.

Laurence Gonzales, interviewed dozens of the survivors of Flight 232. He takes the reader through the detective work that found the fatal flaw in an exploded titanium fan disk. More powerful still is the heroism he found: pilots flying a plane with no controls; flight attendants keeping their calm in the face of certain death; passengers sacrificing themselves to save others.

About the author

Laurence Gonzales is the author of Surviving Survival, Flight 232, and the bestseller Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why. He has won two National Magazine Awards and is a scholar at the Sante Fe Institute. He divides his time between Evanston, Illinois, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Summary

A dramatic and extraordinarily rare survivors' view of a major air crash, twenty-five years after the tragedy.

Product details

• Authors: Laurence Gonzales, Laurence (Sante Fe Institute) Gonzales, Gonzales Laurence
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.08.2015
• EAN: 9780393351262
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35126-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 402 g
• Illustrations: 8 pages of illustrations
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Aircraft and aviation, Aircraft: general interest