Flight 232 : a story of disaster and survival
Gonzales, Laurence, 1947-2014
Book
On 19th 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.
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bury Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 363.12465 | Available |
Main title:
Flight 232 : a story of disaster and survival / Laurence Gonzales.
Author:
Gonzales, Laurence, 1947-, author
Imprint:
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Collation:
416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780393240023 (hbk)
Dewey class:
363.12465
Language:
English
BRN:
1664515