Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393351262 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent - thorough and well researched. But also harrowing. Flight 232 is an extremely well researched, compelling, and especially harrowing story of the ill fated United Airlines Flight 232 in 1989. The reason that flight merits an entire book has to do with the sheer amount of survivors on what should have been a non survivable catastrophic engine failure situation. As well, it was a watershed event leading to the development of many modern safety practices as well as crash response procedures and investigation. It's also notable for laws that did not (and perhaps should have) been . One of the ABSOLUTE BEST READS EVER! Absolutely AMAZING! I could NOT put this book down. And despite the grim nature of an airline tragedy, this book is actually a very uplifting and life affirming read. Laurence Gonzales intricately details the incredible, true story of one of the largest domestic airline disasters in US history, from both the scientific and human interest perspectives. The author's painstaking research and explanation of the aeronautical logistics involved in this horrific aviation disaster, are interspersed with very candid accounts from the . Harrowing, disturbing, mind-blowing story. K. Hartman Admittedly, I have a bit of a (possibly morbid) obsession with jumbo jet crashes, so take this for what it is worth This is a detailed account of one of the most amazing acts of iron-nerved heroism in aviation history. It is detailed (more on this later), well-written, well-paced, and absolutely engaging. The writer jumps around to the various aspects and points of view of the accident enough that you don't get bogged down or bored by any of the subjects. Still, it is thorough and full of rich, often disturbing detail. Gonzal
And then people began emerging from the summer corn that lined the runways. “A richly detailed story that is equal parts heartbreaking, inspiring and full of fascinating science masterful.”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. 8 pages of illustrations. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. No one has ever attempted the compl
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). 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). 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