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Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival | Laurence Gonzales
3 posts | 4 read | 1 to read
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 (…more)
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Amiable
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Mehso-so

Well-researched but uneven account of United Flight 232, which crashed in Sioux City, IA, on July 19, 1989, killing 112 of the 296 passengers and crew. The book seesaws between an aeronautical engineering textbook and very graphic descriptions of the casualties. Still, it‘s sobering to learn that the crash resulted from a tiny defect in a fan disk manufactured 18 years before the crash that should have been found during routine inspections.

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rabbitprincess
Bailedbailed

The actual story of Flight 232 is interesting and deserves to be told: many safety improvements came out of this accident, as well as a demonstration of the value of crew resource management. However, in this book, the story is told in a jumbled way, and the description of injuries borders on the gratuitous. I would read the NTSB report instead.

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catatonic1242
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Mehso-so

Half a story of survival and half a story about titanium. Half fascinating, half deadly dull.