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Then the pilot came on again andtold us that when we reached 500 feet of elevation hed come on and sayBrace. Brace. Brace. As with that incident on the Hudson, everythingwas shockingly calm, which kind of made me want to panic. But after afew seconds, the feeling passed. The pilot gave his brace command; theflight attendant kept commanding, Heads down, stay down it until wetouched down at Peterson Air Force Base, which replica omega Omega Seamaster Special Edition watches apparently had a betteremergency team for aircraft emergencies. The rumbling sound was loud,and the plane shuddered, but it was otherwise uneventful. We came torest with a slight lean to the right, and men in silver fire suitsswarmed the plane. The pilot came back on and, turns out it was a rearright wheel that had blown. This one was a routine landing compared with the Hudson, but we didnt know that in the air.
After wed been bussed to the ColoradoSprings airport and outfitted with a new plane, the captain offered to buy usall a round from the in-flight beverage cart. I took him up on theoffer. Heres what I learned from the affair:In anairline emergency, you can expect the flight crew to be calm, professional,and disciplined. The flight attendant later replica omega Speedmaster Broad Arrow watches admitted to me that she wasworried and that it was the first time anything like that had everhappened on one of her flights. Still, she kept it together and made itseem like a routine affair. The passengers were calm as well, and Istill cant quite place why that seemed really unnerving. Maybe itsjust that I was secretly hoping for a rugby team full of cannibals,like in Alive. --Grayson SchafferHistory will remember this as a week in which some tough barriers were broken. First Barack, and now this: A double backflip on a snowmobile.
