The time my dad went on a parachute jump and almost pissed his pants. My dad is airborne, that means his job is to jump out of airplanes. On this particular jump he had to get up very early to go the jump so he decided to bring a large thermos of coffee to wake him up a little. When he got to the drop zone he got issued his parachute and got lined up in his group. As he was waiting, the people said it would be delayed and that’s when he finally got that oh so horrible feeling that we all know. He was contemplating for a while if he should stay in the suit or should he take it off and go use the restroom. That’s when he started asking around to make up his mind but everyone was saying they were about to get on any second now...but that second turned into 10 minutes which turned into 30 minutes and by that time he was told it was time to go onto the plane and the bathroom was basically almost out of the question but yet again before they could step foot into the plane there was another aircraft delay. My dad by this time was getting annoyed and was blaming the whole thing on the thermos of coffee. Finally; his group was loaded onto the aircraft first, typically that would mean you’re the last …show more content…
Everyone was taking their time jumping, there was even a reenlistment ceremony for a soldier who decided to reenlist in the air and had a whole ceremony on the back of the plane which meant they had to spend another ten to fifteen minutes waiting for the plane to turn around over the drop zone. “Please just kick him out of the plane, he’s already in the Army!!! By this time my dad was practically in tears trying not to piss himself. After the ceremony was over it was his turn to jump off and this man could barely stand to even hookup with his group. Before they could jump everyone was checking their gear and my dad didn’t even check his gear. “Just let me off the plane already, I need to
Preparing for their counter attack, passengers were gathering what they could to try to save their lives. Although some new that it might be their last day, they were prepared to do something about it. Filling boiling water with some pitchers and rushing towards the cockpit, the terrorists try to shift the plane to break them of their balance. Fearing that they would soon break into the cockpit, they decided to abandon their main goal dive the plane into the ground. Recordings clarify that the pilot say “Yes, put it in it, and pull it down.”
He took one last look at the American pilot, saluted him, and returned to Germany. “Good luck,” Stigler said to himself. “You’re in God’s hands now…” Franz Stigler didn’t think the big B-17 could get back to England, and wondered for years what happened to
Ain’t no one I’ve flown with over here shown any more guts than you did when you saved my ass the other day. By God! That’s what I’ll do. I’ll set the fuckin’ record straight all right!” I wasn’t at all convinced that he would actually do what he said.
On the way up there, the pilot kept a dull and quiet personality. When the tension loosened a little bit, the pilot actually let Brian drive the plane. Although scary, Brian got the hang of it rather quickly. While the pilot was driving, he randomly had a massive heart attack, and since there was no medical assistance, he died within a couple of minutes. Brian was now all alone and terrified.
He had the arrival time, and: "I 'll be there to meet you at LaGuardia." He went to that airport and waited. His father never arrived. He called him and found the phone was no longer in service. He checked with the airline and found that the tickets had been picked up, but exchanged for a different location, a short flight to Vegas.
Robby Oehlers, his cousin Daisy was a passenger, said “They showed us the fragments that were inside the plane”. Also Oehlers said “it was so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop.” (Brulard) Jordan Withers, his Uncle Glenn was a passenger, said "So that doubt that I wanted clearing up in all this — was he in any pain and would he have been conscious in this — still remains and that's quite upsetting." (Miller) The families still didn’t understand why the
(Wright 13) When he saw the luggage he knew something was up and his mother was afraid to tell him what was going on. They then tell him
It was getting to the time of takeoff so I saluted the captain and headed toward my seat. I got to my seat and there was a screen where we could watch movies; it was all in English though but they had Portuguese subtitles which helped me. About 10 min into the movie, the plane started to move. I grabbed my mother’s arm and held it tight.
My fall walk started on a bright, and sunny day. The birds were chirping and flying through the sky. The wind was blowing the red, yellow and orange leaves off the branches of the trees. Walking through the grass, I heard the sound of dry leaves crunching under my feet. My neighbors had different fall decorations in their yard.
The plane Brian is on is also carrying drilling equipment and, Brian remembers, a "survival pack" that holds supplies in case the plane has to make an emergency landing. The pilot was rubbing his arm, and there was a smell.
They eventually made it to the base but had to land somehow, “Louie had an idea. What if they tied parachutes to the plane, pitched them out the windows at touchdown, and pulled the rip cords.”
The crew turned into 4 men without a plane, so they got several replacement crewmen. However,
Jimmiela Bruessard 9th Honors Mrs.Smith Tonight? I stared into the dark sky, taking a deep breath. “Tonight...tonight.”
All the while, Brian is counting on rescuers showing up at any time. When a rescue plane does fly overhead, though, Brian misses it, seeing it just in time to watch it fade off into the distance. Brian 's reaction, understandably, is not pretty. He was screaming, cursing at god, crying. He was not a happy camper.
When I was only a couple of months old my mom and I were stuck in an airport due to delayed flights. The only luggage we had was my diaper bag and a backpack full of baby toys. I was miserable and cranky the whole entire time which didn’t make my mom feel better. At the time I had no idea what was going on but now that will be stamped in my memories forever.