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Flight 232 Laurence Gonzales (Sante Fe Institute)

Flight 232 By Laurence Gonzales (Sante Fe Institute)

Flight 232 by Laurence Gonzales (Sante Fe Institute)


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Summary

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

Flight 232 Summary

Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival by Laurence Gonzales (Sante Fe Institute)

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.

Flight 232 Reviews

Gonzalez... delivers the goods in exhaustive, relentless fashion. -- The Times
Flight 232 remains a deeply moving and compassionate work, one that really brings home the impact of disaster and survival on everyday lives. A book to be proud of. -- The Big Issue

About Laurence Gonzales (Sante Fe Institute)

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.

Additional information

GOR007712979
9780393351262
0393351262
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival by Laurence Gonzales (Sante Fe Institute)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
20150918
432
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - Flight 232