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"A richly detailed story that is equal parts heartbreaking, inspiringand full of fascinating sciencemasterful." San Francisco Chronicle As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. The rescuers didn't move at first: nobody could possibly survive that crash. And then people began emerging from the summer corn that lined the runways. Miraculously, 184 of 296 passengers lived. No one has ever attempted the complete reconstruction of a crash of this magnitude. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, crew, and airport and rescue personnel, Laurence Gonzales, a commercial pilot himself, captures, minute by minute, the harrowing journey of pilots flying a plane with no controls and flight attendants keeping their calm in the face of certain death. He plumbs the hearts and minds of passengers as they pray, bargain with God, plot their strategies for survival, and sacrifice themselves to save others. Ultimately he takes us, step by step, through the gripping scientific detective work in super-secret labs to dive into the h

Who reads Flight 232 : a Story of Disaster and Survival?

Author

Gonzales, Laurence, 1947-

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393351262

Category

history

Subjects

Engineering, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.09 / 5 (178 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14