Flight 232 by Laurence Gonzales 363.12 Gon

    

This was a sad book.  This was an uplifting book.  This was a book about machines.  This was a book about human emotions.  It was quite the book!   It tells the story of what happened in an Iowa cornfield 25 years ago this summer.  It tells the story of the people who boarded a flight in Denver with the belief that they would end up in Chicago.  It tells the story of flight attendants (the young and the more experienced) who were trained so well that they did their jobs even though they were as afraid as the passengers.  It tells the story of the people at the airport, people in the federal government, people at the hospital, people who were eye witnesses and most importantly it tells the story of the people who lived and died that July day.  It was a miracle that there were any survivors from the crash - but 184 people did.  From this crash a lot of lessons were learned.  This very readable book will make you a little more likely to listen to the attendant the next time you fly.