Crash Course ~A Review~

Book Blurb:

On a cold winter night, a passenger jet with 189 aboard crash landed, out of fuel, in a suburban neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. Ten people died. The pilot was blamed and stripped of his career, and a sweeping transformation of flight-crew training took place that made United Flight 173 (in)famous worldwide as the model for failure and change. That was only the half of it.

Hiding in plain sight for years in an attorney’s file boxes, the forgotten truths of the landmark air disaster reveal much more: an emotional journey tethered to the disgraced pilot and a three-year-old girl who survived the crash and became an unlikely hero for justice and public safety in the dramatic legal battle that followed.

Crash Course, by award-winning journalist Julie Whipple, is the long-overdue, true story of a misunderstood airline tragedy that changed more about our daily lives than most people know. Here is why we’re safer today, how we’re not, and what we can do about it.

My Review:

After the crash landing of United flight 173, there were many questions, and one of the first was who was at fault. The captain, unfortunately, lost his career over the crash. With 189 people on board, and ten deaths, there were numerous inquiries as to what went wrong.
As time passed, there were some that settled out of court, but one, a young girl named Lisa, brought her case before the court — and it was set to be an explosive finding.
Given that there were several…