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North Shore Man Shares Story of Surviving 1989 Sioux City Plane Crash
Tom Eiler was one of the 185 people who survived the plane crash.
As crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco proves, people do survive airplane disasters and Winnetka resident Tom Eiler shares his story of surviving the 1989 Sioux City plane crash, where 185 people survived but 111 died, ABC News reports.
"You had the impact in Sioux City. The plane and the fuselage tearing apart, but when everything came to rest it was like God had turned off all the sounds of the earth. It was totally silent," Eilers told the website.
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