The gripping true tale of a devastating plane crash the investigation into its causes and the race to prevent similar disasters in the future. On the afternoon of April 4 1977 Georgia housewife Sadie Burkhalter Hurst looked out her front door to see a frantic stranger running toward her his clothes ablaze and behind him the mangled fuselage of a passenger plane that had just crashed in her yard. The plane a Southern Airways DC931 had been carrying eightyone passengers and four crew members en