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On July 19, 1989 United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago crash landed after failure of the DC-10 airplane's tail engine. 111 passengers died but, miraculously, 185 survived. The catastrophe is considered an example of successful emergency management.

The crash was so tremendous crash that everyone for miles around saw flames and smoke and figured there would be hundreds of dead passengers--and then people started to walk out of the smoke, many survivors lived to tell the tale. Now leading up to the 25th anniversary the author can track what went wrong (mechanically) and how these people lived through it (emotionally). The author has visited the town and met with many of the survivors and to them he is a hero. Gonzales has written three books on survival for WW Norton (investigating what kind of mindset enables a person to survive near-death experiences). One was called DEEP SURVIVAL and sold 345,000 copies; the next was called EVERYDAY SURVIVAL; and the true sequel is called SURVIVING SURVIVAL--that is, a person survives a death-defying experience but then has lingering emotional issues which themselves are hard to survive-- which was just published in September 2012. The author is a pilot, has written about flying, stunt flying, airplane crashes, and this is the book he was born to write.