Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival Detail
Hardcover: 432 pagesPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (July 7, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393240029
ISBN-13: 978-0393240023
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 1.6 inches
wenty five years ago this month, a United Airlines flight from Denver to Chicago burst into a fireball and crashed in a cornfield outside of Sioux City, Iowa. It was one of the worst plane disasters in history–but it could have been worse. Of the 296 people on board, 184 survived. In his very long and gripping Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival, journalist Laurence Gonzales takes us through the moments before and after the crash (as best remembered by those survivors and observers on the ground). He also goes back through records, scientific documents, and his own experience as a pilot and aviation reporter to piece together what went wrong with the jetliner that was as majestic (and, ultimately, doomed) as the Titanic.
(The last third of the narrative delves into the tiny, microscopic flaw that likely brought the plane down.) As you might expect, there was plenty of terror on Flight 232, but what is surprising is how much inspiring behavior Gonzales discovered there as well flight attendants who truly did put the passengers’ needs first, crew members whose quick thinking probably made the crash less devastating than it would have been, not to mention the plain dumb luck in evidence, as well at least one woman moved out of first class at the last minute. Her original seat was eviscerated; she survived. This is a hard book to read because it addresses some of our worst fears and some we’d never even thought of (apparently, the blue water in the toilets on planes can leak out, freeze and get stuck, as ice, to the outside of the plane). But it is also a story of survival, a tale of science, of heroism and of faith. Read onlineFlight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survivalbook now.
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival Reviews
As one of the nurses that was called upon to assist in the emergency of flight 232 I worked in ER on the day of the crash. Reading this book brought back so many memories and helped fill out parts I didn’t know about. I was very proud of how my hospital, and the entire community came together and remember being so upset over the terrible events these people went through and how terrible for their families. The book did get a little too technical for me in the middle, I was more interested in the human aspect of it, but it is still a good read, especially if you lived through it like I did by being one of the emergency responders. Get online Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival today.
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