As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, united airlines flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of sioux city. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. The rescuers di...As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, united airlines flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of sioux city. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. The rescuers didn't move at first: nobody could possibly survive that crash.