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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.

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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