Flight 232 - Laurence Gonzales

Flight 232

A Story of Disaster and Survival
Buch | Hardcover
432 Seiten
2014
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-24002-3 (ISBN)
26,15 inkl. MwSt
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A dramatic and extraordinarily rare survivors' view of a major air crash, twenty-five years after the tragedy.
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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.8.2014
Zusatzinfo 8 pages of illiustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 168 x 244 mm
Gewicht 666 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
Kinder- / Jugendbuch Sachbücher
ISBN-10 0-393-24002-9 / 0393240029
ISBN-13 978-0-393-24002-3 / 9780393240023
Zustand Neuware
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