Monday, January 19, 2009

The Quiet

clipped from neoneocon.com

all escaped together to tell the tale.

And what a tale it is! One cannot help but be impressed not only by the mere logistics of their survival as well as its improbability, but by the near-unanimity of the passengers’ stories of calm and mutual assistance.

For a typical example, here’s a portion of the transcript of a Bill O’Reilly interview with survivor Fred Beretta:

REILLY: Now, at this point was the plane still quiet as you were descending down or were people getting a little scared?

BERETTA: It was still really quiet. I think everyone was just stunned. Sort of the reality of it was — people were just assimilating that.

O’REILLY: Do you remember what you were thinking?

BERETTA: I thought — I looked out the window and I thought there’s a good chance we’re going to die. And I did think about my family and started praying.