Bad things man, bad things.
Posted on 05/23/2005 3:06:30 AM PDT by Conservatrix
The high-school senior who cheated death by suddenly backing out of a doomed Coney Island plane ride thanks God she's alive — but feels excruciating guilt over the pal's dad who took her place and died, a friend said yesterday.
"She feels guilty. Wouldn't you?" said Brother Rene Roy, principal of the tiny Catholic school in West Virginia that stricken teen Melissa McCulley attends.
Two of McCulley's best friends, Danielle Block and Jo Beth Gross, both 18, as well as Block's dad, Courtney, and the plane's pilot died in the tragic beach crash Saturday.
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Moose4 gave some good advice. I think the best way to get over the fear is just to hop into a Cessna with an instructor on a calm day. The level of control that a pilot has over the plane is really amazing.
I used to be afraid of flying, but took a flight at my local airport for $60. Once up to 3000' or so, the instructor pulled the thottle to idle (simulating engine failure), set the pitch of the plane so that a constant, safe airspeed was maintained, then said "See all of those fields down there? You can land in any one of those with this plane". That went a long way towards calming my fears.
My point is, the things don't fall like rocks out of the sky. Usually, somebody gets distracted or doesn't follow a checklist for most of these accidents. When you take that first trip with an instructor, believe me, he/she'll make sure it's the smoothest, safest flight you ever took in your life. After all, they want you to come back for more lessons. :)
No. Did she know of the plane crash before it happened? Did she force they other person into her seat?
Obviously "No" to both questions.
Guilt is a fact not a feeling. One is either guilty or not guilty.
One can be guilty and wrongly not feel any conviction. One can also be not guilty and wrongly feel some conviction.
Both extremes are equally repugnant.
I know who he is, but I'm at a loss regarding anything else. Can you elaborate or direct to more info?
Thanks.
You either have a serious problem with your graphic, or the post was intended to disrupt. Which is it?
Waylon gave up his seat on the plane too. The guys who took the flight were Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, and The Big Bopper. Waylon made it to their deatination on the bus, the others didn't.
It runs from Martha's Vineyard to Nantucket and then Hyannis... many strange occurrences have happened here.
I have noticed your signup date as well. New behaviour pattern for a troll...
I'll have to go back and read it again.
He/She/It is posting this Pic on a lot of threads(The same exact one), and it's doing the same thing to everyones computer. The only way I am even able to check the thread is by turning off images. My guess is it's a Virus Hack.
150,970,369 byte pic ??
It downloads and displays, it is a jpeg image
HYPER TEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL
http://img175.echo.cx/img175/498/huge1ki.jpg is the URL
size: 1337 bytes, 12287 pixels X 12287 pixels
created 5/23/2005 (same as signup date)
file name is huge1ki.jpg
Bad things man, bad things.
Looks like the Admins removed him and it.
I've had to re-boot my 'puter twice this morning after going on this thread. Never had to do that before.
I used to fly out there often. Couldn't get over all the folks who took their Golden Labs on the local commuters that flew from Hyannis to Nantucket.
It may have just overloaded your graphics, I don't know. I filed an abuse claim, not sure that was the correct protocol, but imho, this is a different type of troll from what I have seen before.
it's probably the tubgirl poster.
Shades of Waylen Jennings!
(gave up his seat so the Big Bopper [who was to sick too ride the bus], Buddy Holly, and Richy Valence could go on "the day the music died".)
Time to reflect and dedicate ones life.
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