Title: The Worst Day: A Plane Cras, A Train Wreck and Remarkable Acts of Heroism in Washington, DC
Author: Bruce Goldfarb
Pages: 240
Formats: Reviewed on eBook
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Acknowledgment: Thanks to NetGalley and Muswell Press for providing an ARC.
This was an intriguing book, because as the author says, they were waiting for a book on this topic and since none was written, he decided to write it himself
On a crazy winter day in January 1982, a perfect storm (if you pardon the pun) of event converged to cause one eventful day in history- this book primarily focuses on the crash of Air Florida Flight 90, while contextualising it with the later event of a fatal Metro train crash, along with non stop major fire events; all of which cause a massive strain on emergency services and their responses.
While sadly not surprisingly, it is still an “oh my” moment to read the disorganisation of emergency services responses as a whole- frankly it appears to be nothing more the sheer dumb luck that there were weren’t more deaths across all the mass casualty events- the responses were nothing more then shocking!
The author has researched their subject well- it was informative and he attempted to interview those that survived Flight 90 to give an interesting perspective.
Worth a read.