It has been 10 years since I was officially a Flight Attendant {for TWA} and I still can not hear about an airplane crashing without my heart racing and wondering if I know anyone on the crew. I lost friends, flying partners and students {i knew 7 people, some better than others} on flight 800 so I was thrilled to hear that the crew did an excellent job evacuating the airplane and that {last I heard} there were no fatalities although some injuries. Odds are I don't know a single person on the airplane but every time I hear about a crash my heart beats a little faster and I remember another time and I am saddened. Thanks to God and a quick thinking pilot everyone survived.
FYI
For a modern jet airliner to ditch – making an emergency landing on water at roughly 200 kilometres an hour – without breaking up that would have resulted in a rapid sinking and probable casualties is almost unprecedented.
The last time a commercial airliner was successfully ditched and everyone on board survived was in 1963, when a Russian Tupolev 124 ditched into the River Neva off Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) after running out of fuel. Like Thursday's accident, the aircraft was intact after the ditching.
For a modern jet airliner to ditch – making an emergency landing on water at roughly 200 kilometres an hour – without breaking up that would have resulted in a rapid sinking and probable casualties is almost unprecedented.
The last time a commercial airliner was successfully ditched and everyone on board survived was in 1963, when a Russian Tupolev 124 ditched into the River Neva off Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) after running out of fuel. Like Thursday's accident, the aircraft was intact after the ditching.
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I obsessively watched MSNBC coverage yesterday. What a miracle! Pilot was genius!
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