One fellow who made it through a horrific aircraft disaster in 1977 happened to be sitting on the runway reading an in-flight safety instruction card when another plane crashed into his. Quick-witted survivors are surprisingly anomalous. Ripley searches for patterns in human behavior by interviewing hundreds of people who lived through catastrophes. In The Unthinkable, Ripley cites a National Institute of Standards and Technology study that showed that those who made it out of the WTC waited an average of six minutes after the plane hit their building before heading for the exit and walking slowly - not running - down the stairs. 11, dithered at their desks, calling relatives, turning off computers and pondering which mementos to rescue from their desks even as the doomed jets burned above their heads. Consider the World Trade Center workers who, on Sept. We behave differently, often irrationally. In moments of total disaster - plane crashes or terrorist attacks - something happens in our brains that affects the way we think. Each week, we present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work.Īmanda Ripley's new book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - And Why, is the thinking person's manual for getting out alive. Wildfiresīook Tour is a Web feature and podcast. National Comparing Responses To Katrina, Calif.
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