There was a security chief at the Sioux CIty airport who insisted that the airport perform drills for catastrophic events, even though everyone "knew" that nothing like that would ever happen at their little airport. When United 232 made that improbable landing, the airport emergency team, the police and the hospitals worked like a well tuned machine, undoubtedly saving many who could have otherwise died. And after that recent event in which an Asian flight crew basically went hysterical in an emergency, I should mention how US flights attendants in similar and even more serious events have displayed discipline and maintained order.