The captain of a crippled jet steers toward tri-state rescue-team experts waiting in Sioux City, Iowa.

Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing at Sioux City Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989. 184 people survived, partly thanks to the ground rescue workers who had 40 minutes to prepare for the event.—Roald Pettersen

An account of the amazing survival of the passengers of a plane crash. Due to the preparedness of the local community where the plane went down, from years of practice on disaster training, and the refusal of the pilots to give up on the doomed plane, many people who might have died survived.—Brian W Martz <[email protected]>