on July 19, 1989, United Flight 232 took off from Denver en route to Chicago. “The only question that remains is: How long is it going to take Iowa to hit me?” ‘That can’t happen’ A National Transportation Safety Board investigator looks at the ruptured passenger compartment of the doomed flight on July 21, 1989. “The first thing that strikes your mind is, ‘Dear God, I’m going to die this afternoon,’” one survivor told Gonzales. Yet as Laurence Gonzales details in his heart-stopping new book “Flight 232,” of the 296 people on board that day, 185 would survive - something no passenger, no crew member, no air traffic controller thought possible. 2 engine - and while that plane was able to fly on just two of its three engines, Flight 232 was about to endure a disastrous chain reaction that seemed to have one outcome: This plane was going to crash somewhere over Iowa, and it would be unsurvivable. Those sounds were caused by the sudden loss of the DC-10’s No. “The plane was making sounds I never heard before.” “It was just so loud that there’s no way to describe how loud it was,” said Jan Murray, one of the seven flight attendants on board that day. It was a little over an hour into United Flight 232 when the plane suffered its first explosion.
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