Anything Can Happen at Any Time

Today as I worked in the toll plaza, my mind was allowed to wander. Aware of the recent tragic crash of a DC-9 in The Congo, I thought back to my self-led "emergency training" which consisted of the independent study of several major airliner crashes in the past 32 years. A flight attendant on an Embraer 120 for ASA was involved in one of these particular crashes, and her name is permanently etched in my mind as one of my personal heroes. When I am a flight attendant and am ever faced with a similar situation, I know in the end I will give much credit to Robin Fech and her example of how she maintained a relative calm and made sure each passenger was properly briefed on bracing and evacuation procedures while securing the cabin, all in under 10 minutes.To be continued..