Summary of Laurence Gonzales's Flight 232

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

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#1 A woman named Martha Conant was on a plane when it exploded, killing all on board. She survived by chance, as did everyone else. The pilots and flight attendants were heroes.

#2 A woman named Martha Conant was on a plane when it exploded, killing all on board. She survived by chance, as did everyone else. The pilots and flight attendants were heroes.

#3 A woman named Martha Conant was on a plane when it exploded, killing all on board. She survived by chance, as did everyone else. The pilots and flight attendants were heroes.

#4 A woman named Martha Conant was on a plane when it exploded, killing all on board. She survived by chance, as did everyone else. The pilots and flight attendants were heroes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350031133

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Insights on Laurence Gonzales's Flight 232

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On July 19, 1989, Martha Conant was on her way to Philadelphia to work with a client. She didn’t even look at her ticket until she was at the airport. She was assigned a seat in the last row. She checked the display boards and saw that she could wait a couple of hours for a nonstop flight instead of this one, which was making a stop in Chicago.

#2

Susan White, a flight attendant, was assigned to service drinks in the second row from the back of the plane. She began serving drinks, but soon realized that something was wrong when she saw the head flight attendant, Jan Brown, coming towards her with a stern expression on her face.

#3

Conant, the flight attendant, was preoccupied with her job and her values had gotten screwed up. She desperately longed to be back on the ground, to feel the heat of summer, and to hug her family.

#4

The plane was heading to Chicago. About halfway there, they experienced a loud bang, which sounded like an explosion. The plane shuddered and shook violently, and then climbed three hundred feet quickly.

#5

The crew struggled with the controls as the plane began to roll to the right. Haynes took his right hand off the yoke and swatted the number one engine back, and on the way back up, pushed the other engine up and was back on the yoke in just a few seconds.

#6

The flight had arrived in Denver from Philadelphia on the last leg of a four-day trip. The pilots had departed and a fresh crew came on board: Haynes, Records, and Dvorak. Brown planned to go up to the cockpit to introduce herself, but Haynes came back to the galley and beat her to it.

#7

On July 19, 1989, Brown made the preflight safety announcement. She first carefully checked what she called her demo card, the safety instructions found in the pocket on the back of every seat.

#8

As the plane descended, Dvorak informed the crew that they would fly slower to Chicago. Brown said that the atmosphere on the plane was not an emergency, but a crisis. She did not usually talk that way.

#9

The plane was banking to the right and sinking fast. First class passenger Jan Brown saw how pale and defeated her captain looked as he