It was a grim situation, but I don't think the end of the article does justice to the fact that nearly two-thirds of the passengers survived what by all rights

It was a grim situation, but I don't think the end of the article does justice to the fact that nearly two-thirds of the passengers survived what by all rights should have been completely unsurvivable, thanks to the sterling performance of the flight crew and the flight instructor, as well as the flight attendants for keeping everyone calm and prepared, and the control tower personnel for getting a prodigious amount of local firefighters and EMTs on the scene before the plane arrived. It was, as Wikipedia dryly puts it, "a prime example of successful crew resource management," and had a big influence on training practices as airlines sought to replicate that professionalism. United Flight 232 was an engineering disaster, but a piloting miracle.