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Denial. Several passengers numbed their terror with trivial distractions. After helping free a fellow passenger from the wreckage, Thomas Rothenberg, a warehouse supervisor in New York City, stood around with three other survivors and, he said later, "talked about what we did for a living." Stewardess Beverly Raposa led Christmas singing, afterward recalling, "We didn't do very well on Frosty the Snow Man because no one could remember the words...
What can make that process difficult is "the guilt of the survivor"-the usually irrational feeling in those who have survived concentration camps, atomic war or natural disasters that they may somehow have caused the deaths of others, or may have deserved survival no more than others. Stewardess Sharon Transue, for one, reported after the Florida accident: "I kept thinking, I'm alive. Thank God. But I wondered why I was spared. I felt, it's not fair; everyone else is hurt. Why aren't I?" Recalling his own escape from a crash at O'Hare...
...airline passenger becomes sick during flight, his problems can often be solved by a stewardess with a plastic bag. If a pilot becomes ill, the result can be disastrous. Eighty-one died when a pilot suffered a heart attack while landing at Ardmore, Okla., in 1966; on at least 17 other occasions in the past ten years, air-crew illness has been responsible for harmless, though potentially serious mishaps and near misses. To minimize the possibility of airborne illness, the Federal Aviation Administration requires all U.S. command pilots to undergo regular physical examinations every six months. Few doubt that...
...kind of accusation, a husband may try to repair his ego by a daring act of air piracy-at the same time symbolically getting back at other members of his family. Observes Hubbard: "It is not difficult to discern the delight they experienced when they approached little sister-mother stewardess, gun in hand, and said, 'Honey, we're going all the way -to Cuba,' and the sense of power they derived from making daddy (flying the plane) stay put, making him permit the abuse of sister-mother, and forcing him to perform the bidding of sonny...
Marriage Revealed. F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey, 39, criminal lawyer with a penchant for headline cases; and Lynda Hart, 25, a charter airline stewardess; he for the third time, she for the first; on Aug. 26 in Des Moines, with Iowa Governor Robert Ray and Captain Ernest Medina, Bailey's erstwhile client and current business associate in attendance...