by Sunshine44

Created on: January 16, 2009   Last Updated: May 14, 2010

Miracle on the Hudson

The media is calling the splash landing that occurred on January 15, the miracle on the Hudson River. The US Airliner plummeted into the frigid waters of the Hudson River. I found out about the accident that happened at 3:26 p.m. as I was doing some editing for a project I was working on. I know about almost every major airline crash that has occurred. Do you remember the Value Jet that went down in the Everglades? I do. How about the airline that crashed into the Potomac River? I do. Or, the plane that crashed a few years ago while taking off out of Lexington, Kentucky? I do. I do, because I have a terrible fear of flying. I read the accounts, I think of the people who survived and the ones that had perished. I think about their families. I think about the survivors and what they think post crash.

I developed a system to rate hour fearful I might feel about a flight. It was my "scare" system. I would assign a flight I was taking as a two scare, four scare, eight scare, etc. If it was a two scare, then I would be taking a direct flight and would be going up and then down = two times that I would be scared. Every time the plane would take off that was a scare for me. When it landed, it was another scare. A two scare meant that I had another means of transportation to arrive back home, otherwise, it would have been considered a four scare! A few years back, I took a trip to Ireland, England and Wales. It was about a fourteen scare! We flew from Florida to Newark, from Newark to London, from Wales to Dublin, from Dublin to Wales, from London to Newark from Newark to Atlanta (the weather was SO bad that we missed our connecting flight and spent the night in Atlanta Airport), and then Atlanta to home. I share this information to let the reader know that I fly . . . I am just terrified to do so . . . EVERY TIME!

After reading everything that I could get my hands on about the 155 survivors of the Hudson River crash, I began telling myself that this was IT! I wasn't going to fly any more! Just a few months ago, I had taken a flight from St. Louis to Orlando (it was an eight scare!), and I thought that the flight from Memphis to Orlando did me in. It was such a rough flight that the captain told all of us, "Remain in your seat. Do not leave your seats for the duration of the flight! There will be no beverages passed except for water." It was so bad that I asked the lady sitting next to me, "Do you have any drugs with you?" She laughed, and said,

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