The Beauty of Survival | National Geographic

when I see the footage that was taken
like of the pier from the pier of the
plane actually landing on the river I
see it I know it happened I know I was
on there but it still is hard for me to
wrap my brain around the fact that my
body was sitting in that plane that
landed in that River I think the first
feelings I had were well but how did
that happen and why am I here and why
did it not turn out the way that that
most plane crashes do for the what was
it birds knocking out both engines it’s
a one in eight billion chance i think
the NTSB said for every fur as crazy as
that was for the one thing that went
really wrong all the stuff that went
really right with the river being there
that not having ice with the ferry boats
being there I mean there’s so many
things that went right for the one thing
that went wrong
I don’t know why that happened I’ll
probably never know why that happened
but what doesn’t kill us does make us a
lot stronger so quickly I took stock in
that and said well this is a life
experience I can build on I don’t know
it’s still just it’s just surreal in
some in some ways I’m putting a rare
club you know there aren’t a whole lot
of people that come back and survive
plane crashes and the beauty I mean the
best part I think of our experience is
that we all survived for as much as half
dealt with the PTSD thank goodness I
don’t have to deal with survivor’s guilt
everybody’s arrived
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