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As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. The rescuers didn't move at first: nobody could possibly survive that crash. And then people began emerging from the summer corn that lined the runways. Miraculously, 184 of 296 passengers lived. No one has ever attempted the complete reconstruction of a crash of this magnitude. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, crew, and airport and rescue personnel, Laurence Gonzales, a…
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4 editions- Other · English · 2016Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio · 9781511319812
- Other · English · 2015Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 432 pages · 9780393351262
- Other · English · 2014W.W. Norton & Company · 415 pages · 9780393240023
- Other · English · 2014Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 416 pages · 9780393244144
Airplane crash survivalAircraft accidentsAircraft accident victimsIowa, social conditions