Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival - Softcover

"This might just be the best aviation book you'll read this year." "Intense, gripping, alive with knowledge and compassion, Flight 232 is a new masterpiece of calamity and courage." -- Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb "A 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." -- Michael Korda, former RAF pilot, and author of Clouds of Glory: The Life of Robert E. Lee "The definitive account ... 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." -- Jonathan Yardly "Fascinating ... a remarkably vivid, cinematic account, with one cliffhanger after the other." -- John Quinlan "A white knuckle read, so vividly detailed that it's like watching an accident in slow-motion and being unable to look away." -- Jennifer Latson "A book that bears witness to the dead, and to the extraordinary courage of ordinary people; ... a thriller, with a mystery at its core." --Rachel Rose

Laurence Gonzales is the author of Surviving Survival and the bestseller Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why. He has won two National Magazine Awards and is a fellow of the Santa Fe Institute. His essays are collected in the book House of Pain. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.