ocr: AN Nightmare Comes True Contents Retrace Browse < BEEB A Nightmare Comes True On the evening of Friday, 26 May 1979 the world was shocked to learn that an American Hirlines DC-10 airliner had crashed - a Mass of flames and twisted wreckage on take-off from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The lives of 273 people were lost in the worst disaster in the history of flying in the United States. In Cincinnati, Ohio, 23-Year-old office manager David Booth sat slumped in horrified disbelief in front of his television. For 18 consecutive nights before the disaster he had had the same terrible ni ...