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Laurence Gonzales

Laurence Gonzales is the author of “Surviving Survival” and the bestseller “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why.” He has won two National Magazine Awards and lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board look over one of the burned jet engines of a United Airlines DC-10 that crashed while trying to make an emergency landing on July 19, wreckage shown July 22, 1989. There are 109 confirmed deaths in the tragedy. (AP Photo/Sioux City Journal Pool/Ed Porter) (Ed Porter)

What a plane crash feels like: The inside story of an American aviation disaster — and miracle

Laurence Gonzales