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Flight 232 - 9780393240023

Un libro in lingua di Laurence Gonzales edito da W W Norton & Co Inc, 2014

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July 19, 1989. While the crippled airliner—United Airlinesflight 232—wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwestof the airport at Sioux City, Iowa, hundreds of fire and rescueworkers were waiting. The plane slammed onto the runway,broke into pieces, and burst into a vast fireball. The rescueworkers did not move; they stared: nobody could possiblysurvive that crash. And then people began walking out ofthe cornfield lining the runway. Miraculously, 184 of 296 passengerslived, and 138 of those came away without a scratch.Laurence Gonzales, a pilot himself, has interviewed dozens ofthe survivors of Flight 232. He takes us through the grippingdetective work that found the fatal flaw in an exploded titaniumfan disk. More powerful still is the heroism of this unforgettablenarrative: pilots flying a plane with no controls; flightattendants keeping their calm in the face of certain death;passengers sacrificing themselves to save others.

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