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Brazil, BIZ JET SUVIVORS FROM MID AIR
It had been an uneventful, comfortable flight. With the window shade drawn, I was relaxing in my leather seat aboard a $25 million corporate jet that was flying 37,000 feet above the vast Amazon rain forest. The 7 of us on board the 13-passenger jet were keeping to ourselves.Without warning, I felt a terrific jolt and heard a loud bang, followed by an eerie silence, save for the hum of the engines And then the three words I will never forget. Weve been hit, said Henry Yandle, a fellow passenger standing in the aisle near the cockpit of the Embraer Legacy 600 jet. Hit? By what? I wondered. I lifted the shade. The sky was clear; the sun low in the sky. The rainforest went on forever. But there, at the end of the wing, was a jagged ridge, perhaps a foot high, where the five-foot-tall winglet was supposed to be. Posted by: RD 2006-10-03 |
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