Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Miracles Do Happen
I had been busy working around the house and yard, and yesterday for some reason I came inside and turned the TV on about 1745 in hopes of catching the news at six.
You know the rest, the live coverage of the air crash at Toronto was full screen. Having worked around airports in the heavy equipment trade in my first career, and also having attended a few crashes, I got that sinking feeling in my stomach. The intense fire of JP4 jet fuel, complete with smoke blanking out the landscape.
I was thinking, those poor people on that long journey across the ocean, to not only make it successfully to Toronto, but to also touch down successfully, and then all hell broke loose.
The involved personnel relaying that anyone on board would have to be out of the aircraft in seconds to avoid injury or worse. What a sad thing to watch, yet I was as interested as anyone to find out more.
Then it began to happen. Little bits of information that a few people that were on board had straggled up to highway 401. A few out of hundreds of passengers. Then it got even better, with indications that everyone got off safely, only forty some injuries, all minor. Even though a crash of any type is bad, this one changed my feelings and emotions from horrendous to ecstatic in a little over an hour.
Miracles do happen. We watched one yesterday. Someone was watching over them - Someone was watching over them!
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I had been busy working around the house and yard, and yesterday for some reason I came inside and turned the TV on about 1745 in hopes of catching the news at six.
You know the rest, the live coverage of the air crash at Toronto was full screen. Having worked around airports in the heavy equipment trade in my first career, and also having attended a few crashes, I got that sinking feeling in my stomach. The intense fire of JP4 jet fuel, complete with smoke blanking out the landscape.
I was thinking, those poor people on that long journey across the ocean, to not only make it successfully to Toronto, but to also touch down successfully, and then all hell broke loose.
The involved personnel relaying that anyone on board would have to be out of the aircraft in seconds to avoid injury or worse. What a sad thing to watch, yet I was as interested as anyone to find out more.
Then it began to happen. Little bits of information that a few people that were on board had straggled up to highway 401. A few out of hundreds of passengers. Then it got even better, with indications that everyone got off safely, only forty some injuries, all minor. Even though a crash of any type is bad, this one changed my feelings and emotions from horrendous to ecstatic in a little over an hour.
Miracles do happen. We watched one yesterday. Someone was watching over them - Someone was watching over them!
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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