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Flight 232 : A Story of Disaster and Survival by Laurence Gonzales (2014, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393240029
ISBN-139780393240023
eBay Product ID (ePID)170174313
Product Key Features
Book TitleFlight 232 :A Story of Disaster and Survival
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicSociology / General, Aviation / Commercial, Aeronautics & Astronautics
IllustratorYes
GenreTransportation, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
AuthorLaurence Gonzales
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2014-005238
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsA kind of miracle. Gonzales combines meticulous research, intense and even agonizing drama, and a soaring intensity of emotion. Flight 232 leaves one feeling exalted, not depressed, at the end of a book about a grisly air crash that spares no details. The instances of heroism and self-sacrifice in the face of unimaginable horror are countless, and rendered with a spare dignity that rises above the macabre., A white knuckle read, so vividly detailed that it's like watching an accident in slow-motion and being unable to look away., The definitive account of this catastrophe... Flight 232 stands alone: for its absolutely riveting depiction of the flight's last minutes and the horrendous aftermath; for its vivid and sympathetic portraits of many of those aboard the plane, the crew most particularly; and for its meticulous inquiry into the mechanical failure., A book that bears witness to the dead, and to the extraordinary courage of ordinary people; ...a thriller, with a mystery at its core., Gonzales...tells a richly detailed story that is equal parts heartbreaking, inspiring, gruesome and full of fascinating science. Through his masterful reporting we come to know both the survivors and the doomed as the story unfolds., Intense, gripping, alive with knowledge and compassion, Flight 232 is a new masterpiece of calamity and courage., Gonzales offers an astonishingly in-depth reconstruction of the events... destined to stand as the definitive book on its namesake... One could hardly finish Flight 232 without a new respect for both the genius of flight and the army of trained professionals who make it happen tens of thousands of times each day across the United States alone.
Dewey Decimal363.12/465
SynopsisAs 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 commercial pilot himself, captures, minute by minute, the harrowing journey of pilots flying a plane with no controls and flight attendants keeping their calm in the face of certain death. He plumbs the hearts and minds of passengers as they pray, bargain with God, plot their strategies for survival, and sacrifice themselves to save others. Ultimately he takes us, step by step, through the gripping scientific detective work in super-secret labs to dive into the heart of a flaw smaller than a grain of rice that shows what brought the aircraft down. An unforgettable drama of the triumph of heroism over tragedy and human ingenuity over technological breakdown, Flight 232 is a masterpiece in the tradition of the greatest aviation stories ever told., Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet.
LC Classification NumberTL553.525.I8G66 2014
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- 13 Aug, 2020
True story!!
Amazing true story of a very serious plane crash at a small airport in Iowa. Days before the crash they had a training session of such an event. Thanks to this the crash could have been so much worse and many more casualties. Many volunteers were involved.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
