It went like a firecracker,
a real sharp blast,
and before I knew,
I was up from sleep to behold
the skies, gaping through
the roof of the Boeing.
It was wide open above my head.
I could feel the clouds streaming in.
A quick look ahead,
And I could see the flight panel
And it's array of indicators.
It was like hell broke lose.
Oxygen masks dropped,
And a flight attendant's voice
Stuttered through the speakers.
The nose of the plane dipped
And the pilot began a rapid controlled descent
from 36,000 feet
to 11,000 feet altitude.
People dropped,
crew members and passengers
hit their heads on the seats in front of them
and passed out.
Nobody knows how we found
solid ground.
But when we did,
we grabbed
and hugged each other -
Everybody was like
We were high school chums.
Would you fly again
If you had an experience like that?
I fly a lot, and this,
is the first time I've had something
like this happen.
As I stood there starring at the wreck
All I had wanted, was just to get home
and hold my kids.
Achirri Ishmael
*Reconstructed from several perspectives. Source: The Associated Press: "Fuselage Hole forces Southwest emergency landing," by Walter Berry and Lien Hoang. Associated PressApril 2, 2011.
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