Scared out of my mind
August 27th, 2006 | 
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This morning I had the scare of my life. Lasted short enough to allow my heart to start beating again.
At 5:45am I was awoken by the alarm. I know, people who know me would probably think that this was the scare. In a way it was, but it got worse.
The reason we were this early was that my wife had to catch a Delta commuter flight to Atlanta (and then on to San Antonio, Texas), so I had to drop her off at the airport here in Melbourne, Florida.
When I got home I went straight back to bed.
Then when I got up at a more reasonable time (okay… it was after noon) I checked my email, and the first thing I read was a ‘breaking news’ messages from CNN, a service I subscribed to.
And I started reading: “All 50 people aboard a Delta commuter flight are presumed dead after the plane crashed ….”
This is where my heart skipped a few beats, in fact, it felt as if it stopped for 30 minutes…
I felt an enormous sense of relief when I learned it wasn’t flight 638 to Atlanta, but then I felt horrible for feeling this relief in the context of 49 people dying in a plane crash.
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I was “off the grid” most of the day yesterday, and today, so I just saw the news about this crash an hour or so ago — the pilot TOOK OFF ON THE WRONG RUNWAY!!!
Unreal. “We got gas?” “We got air in the tires?” “Are we on the LONG fucking runway and not the WRONG fucking runway?”
These are just a FEW of the questions I want my aircrew discussing before they try to take off!
Rob
I just read that too .. Wrong runway? WTF!
Not only is there the flighdeck crew, there’s also the ground-traffic control folks (short tower) who are in charge of making sure everyone takes the right taxiway and ends up at the proper runway, and there’s the ATC crew (big tower) who are responsible for take-off clearance.
Were all these people asleep or picking their noses?
Un-fucking-believable.
men, dat is zeker schrikken, net wat je zegt, voor al die anderen kwam er daarna niet het geluk dat het niet het vliegtuig was waaar een dierbare inzat….. ik reageer ff in het nederlands hoor anders doe ik uren over zo’n reactie *grin*…. en ik heb je in mijn rss reader gezet, ik gebruik mijn leeslijst al heel lang niet meer 😉
HA! *maakt een rondedansje* DE Paool in mijn blog! WAT een eer! En in het Nederlands is prima hoor!
En ja, dat vliegtuigongeval … brrr.. zal er maar over zwijgen.
En dank voor ‘t opnemen van m’n blog in je rss reader.
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hahahhaha ja geweldig, gelukkig heb je gegoogeld, ik was al bang dat je het echt wist…heel eng… 🙂 Ik zal dat plaatje als oplossing gebruiken morgen 🙂