Originally Posted by
Boomer
Here's what the grizzled old 25-year Captains are telling the wee lad FOs in Comair Ops these days...
"You know, that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eighteen hundred pilots went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest. Anyway, we delivered the bomb."
I have you beat. I flew with a guy last week that told me how he survived the titanic going down! The key, he said, is to hold on as long as possible before jumping in. Most people died in that shipwreck from freezing to death!