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Speaker 1: On April seventeenth, twenty eighteen, forty two year old Holly
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Speaker 1: Mackie sat down in aisle seat fourteen C on a.
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Speaker 4: Southwest Airlines plane.
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Speaker 1: That morning, she, along with one hundred and forty three
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Speaker 1: other passengers and the five crew members, would be flying
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Speaker 1: from New York City to Dallas, Texas.
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Speaker 4: And then after that four.
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Speaker 1: Hour flight, Hollywood get off that plane and board another
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Speaker 1: plane from Dallas to Oklahoma City, where she lived, but
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Speaker 1: luckily that flight was only about an hour long. After
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Speaker 1: Holly buckled her lap belt, she put her carry on
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Speaker 1: bag under the seat in front of her, and then
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Speaker 1: she waited to see who was going to be sitting
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Speaker 1: in the two seats.
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Speaker 4: To her left.
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Speaker 1: A few seconds later, a forty three year old bank
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Speaker 1: executive and mother of two named Jennifer Reardon came walking
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Speaker 1: down the aisle and stopped right outside of Row fourteen
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Speaker 1: and turned into the aisle towards Holly. And Holly, who
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Speaker 1: was kind of keeping her head down, she noticed there
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Speaker 1: was this person standing outside of her aisle, and so
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Speaker 1: she turned and looked up and looking down at her
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Speaker 1: with this big, bright smile, and Jennifer said to her, Hey,
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Speaker 1: you know.
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Speaker 4: Can I sit next to you as anybody using those seats?
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Speaker 4: And Holly would say, no, I'm here by myself, go
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Speaker 4: right ahead.
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Speaker 1: Unlike other airlines that would assign seats to all of
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Speaker 1: their passengers before they boarded, Southwest air Lines has an
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Speaker 1: open seating plant. What they do is they basically group
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Speaker 1: passengers into boarding groups, but then once that group is
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Speaker 1: on the plane, it's first come, first surf. After Jennifer
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Speaker 1: slid past Holly and made her way to the window
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Speaker 1: seat where she.
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Speaker 4: Sat down, which was seat fourteen A.
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Speaker 1: She buckled her lap belt and then, just like Holly,
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Speaker 1: she took her carry on bag and stuffed it under
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Speaker 1: the seat in front of her, and then she pulled
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Speaker 1: a paperback book out of her bag and started reading
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Speaker 1: it for the next few minutes. As more and more
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Speaker 1: passengers came onto the plane, nobody took the seat between
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Speaker 1: Holly and Jennifer, because generally speaking, people don't.
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Speaker 4: Like riding in the middle seat if there is a
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Speaker 4: window or aisle seat.
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Speaker 1: Available, because it's just not very comfortable sitting between two
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Speaker 1: people for hours at a time. But eventually the only
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Speaker 1: seats left were middle seats. And at some point, this
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Speaker 1: preteen girl who had her head buried in her phone,
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Speaker 1: she comes onto the plane and she works her way
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Speaker 1: down and she stops outside of row fourteen, and she
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Speaker 1: very politely asked Holly if she can sit between her
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Speaker 1: and Jennifer, and Holly says absolutely, And so.
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Speaker 4: This girl slips past Holly and she sits down in
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Speaker 4: seat fourteen B.
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Speaker 1: She puts her lap belt on, she takes her carry
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Speaker 1: on puts it under the seat in front of her,
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Speaker 1: and then she just goes back to looking at her phone.
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Speaker 1: Now that all of Holly's seat mates had arrived and
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Speaker 1: she would not need to be getting out of the
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Speaker 1: way for more people to come into a row, Holly
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Speaker 1: kind of relaxed for a minute, and she pulled out
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Speaker 1: her iPad and she began scanning through the news as
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Speaker 1: she waited for the plane to finish boarding. After all
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Speaker 1: the passengers had been seated, one of the flight attendants
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Speaker 1: closed the airplane door, and then they grabbed the microphone
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Speaker 1: and welcomed everyone aboard the plane and thanked them for
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Speaker 1: choosing Southwest Airlines.
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Speaker 4: And then they reminded everyone on.
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Speaker 1: Board to make sure their seat belt was fastened, that
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Speaker 1: their tray was in the upright position, that their seat
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Speaker 1: was upright as well, that they had stowed big electronics,
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Speaker 1: and then with the help of several other flight attendants,
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Speaker 1: they went over some basic safety procedures in case of
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Speaker 1: a mid air emergency. Most of the passengers on this
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Speaker 1: flight were really not paying attention to the safety brief
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Speaker 1: They were trying to sleep, or they were stowing their stuff,
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Speaker 1: or they were sending one last text message. But Holly,
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Speaker 1: on the other hand, she was paying careful attention. Now,
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Speaker 1: this wasn't totally unusual for her, she was generally safety conscious,
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Speaker 1: but for some reason, on this flight, she just had
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Speaker 1: a sense that something bad was about to happen. There
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Speaker 1: was this deep sense of foreboding that she normally didn't
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Speaker 1: feel on flights, and so she found herself really carefully
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Speaker 1: paying attention to these procedures in case something did go wrong.
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Speaker 2: After the brief was over, the attendant.
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Speaker 1: Who was holding the microphone thanked everyone for listening and
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Speaker 1: then said, sit back.
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Speaker 4: Relax, and enjoy your flight.
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Speaker 1: But Holly couldn't do that because one, she really did
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Speaker 1: have this weird sense that something was off about this flight,
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Speaker 1: that something bad was going to happen, and she just
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Speaker 1: didn't know why. And then number two, she remembered that
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Speaker 1: she had drank this huge cup of iced coffee before
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Speaker 1: she boarded the plane, and so now she really had
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Speaker 1: to use the bathroom. But the plane had already begun
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Speaker 1: taxiing over to the runway, and an attendant had told
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Speaker 1: her she had to sit down. You can't go to
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Speaker 1: the bathroom now, you gotta wait until we're up in
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Speaker 1: the air.
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Speaker 2: And so Holly, who.
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Speaker 1: Was now feeling very mentally and physically uncomfortable. I found
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Speaker 1: herself kind of anxiously looking to her left out the
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Speaker 1: window as the plane continued to taxi.
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Speaker 4: To the top of the runway.
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Speaker 1: And then once the plane was set, it paused for
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Speaker 1: a second, and then the engines fired and Holly and
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Speaker 1: the girl next to her and Jennifer all got sucked
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Speaker 1: back into their seat as the plane began hurtling down
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Speaker 1: the track and so Hally, the girl and Jennifer, they're
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Speaker 1: all turned They're looking out the window as the plane
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Speaker 1: is just bombing straight ahead.
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Speaker 4: They're watching the airport.
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Speaker 1: Kind of disappear out of view, and then they feel
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Speaker 1: the plane and begin to get lift, and then they
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Speaker 1: take off. As the plane rapidly ascended, Holly turned away
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Speaker 1: from the window and just sat back and closed her
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Speaker 1: eyes and was just picturing that moment when they reached
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Speaker 1: their cruising altitude, and she would hear that chime in
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Speaker 1: the cabin, and then the captain would come on the
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Speaker 1: intercom and say, we've reached our cruising altitude. It's now
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Speaker 1: safe to get up and walk around, at which point
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Speaker 1: Holly was going to run to the bathroom. And so
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Speaker 1: when the plane finally got to a point where Holly
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Speaker 1: felt like they were starting to level out. They probably
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Speaker 1: were going to be at their cruising altitude soon. Holly
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Speaker 1: preemptively undid her seat felt and turned to face the aisle,
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Speaker 1: getting ready for that chime in the cabin so she
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Speaker 1: could get to the bathroom as soon as possible, But
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Speaker 1: that chime didn't happen. Instead, when they reached their cruising altitude,
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Speaker 1: the captain came on the intercom and she would tell
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Speaker 1: everyone that they had reached their cruising altitude, but no
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Speaker 1: one can leave their seats yet. They were expecting some
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Speaker 1: fairly rough air, some turbulence, and so Holly was totally
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Speaker 1: frustrated and disappointed, and she let out this audible grunt
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Speaker 1: out of frustration. And Jennifer, who had her head in
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Speaker 1: her book, she hears this grunt and she turns to
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Speaker 1: look at Holly to make sure she's okay, And at
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Speaker 1: the exact same time, Holly found herself kind of looking
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Speaker 1: down and turning towards the window to look out the window,
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Speaker 1: and she made eye contact with Jennifer, and immediately Holly
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Speaker 1: recognized that Jennifer thought something was wrong with her, and
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Speaker 1: she was kind of looking at her to make sure
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Speaker 1: she was okay, and Holly just goes, I really have
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Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom. And so at this the
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Speaker 1: two women kind of laughed about Holly's plight because it
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Speaker 1: was kind of funny that she desperately needed to go
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Speaker 1: but wasn't allowed to, and so eventually Jennifer just said,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure they'll let you go soon, and
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Speaker 1: then Jennifer went back to her book and Holly went
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Speaker 1: back to anxiously waiting to use the bathroom. And the
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Speaker 1: girl sitting between them did not care at all. She
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Speaker 1: was not listening to them, she didn't care. She had
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Speaker 1: her head buried in her phone. After several minutes, Holly
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Speaker 1: started to worry that it might be a while before
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Speaker 1: she was allowed to get up and move around, because
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Speaker 1: she's looking at the flight attendants and they're all buckled
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Speaker 1: into their jump seats and they were hitting some turbulence,
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Speaker 1: and so Holly's thinking, Okay, I gotta do something to
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Speaker 1: take my mind off of this discomfort, not only the
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Speaker 1: physical discomfort of needing to use the bathroom, but also
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Speaker 1: that strange foreboding It just was not.
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Speaker 2: Going away, and she didn't know what it was.
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Speaker 1: But she just had the sense that something bad was
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Speaker 1: going to happen, and so Holly decided she would do
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Speaker 1: some work, and so at eleven o four am Eastern,
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Speaker 1: she reached down below the seat in front of her
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Speaker 1: and began fishing around in her bag for her laptop.
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Speaker 2: Before she could grab it, she heard two deafeningly.
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Speaker 4: Loud sounds in rapid succession.
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Speaker 1: The first was a popping sound that came from outside
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Speaker 1: of the plane near the left wing, and the left
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Speaker 1: wing was right outside of their window. And then she
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Speaker 1: heard this pushing sound that went through the entire cabin.
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Speaker 1: It was like a high powered vacuum. And then the
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Speaker 1: entire cabin became freezing cold as the plane banked hard
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Speaker 1: to the left. After all this happened in this fraction
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Speaker 1: of a second, Holly sat.
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Speaker 2: Up and it was like she was immediately in shock.
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Speaker 1: She's looking out across the other seats and she sees
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Speaker 1: all those oxygen masks have deployed from the ceiling. People
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Speaker 1: are screaming, The attendants are running up and down the
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Speaker 1: aisle trying to help people put their masks on as
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Speaker 1: the plane is hard banking to the left, and Holly
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Speaker 1: just kind of robotically reaches out and grabs the mask
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Speaker 1: right in front of her, and she tries to put
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Speaker 1: it on, but despite having listened intently to the safety breathe,
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Speaker 1: it was like her hands didn't work and she couldn't
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Speaker 1: get the band to extend long enough to put it
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Speaker 1: over her head. And so she's fumbling with this mask,
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Speaker 1: still in shock. She can't believe this is actually happening,
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Speaker 1: this is how she's gonna die. And then it's like
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Speaker 1: she snaps out of it, and she forgets about the mask,
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Speaker 1: and she turns left to make sure the girl and
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Speaker 1: Jennifer were okay, And what.
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Speaker 2: She saw was absolutely horrifying.
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Speaker 1: That popping sound she heard outside of the plane was
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Speaker 1: the sound of the engine underneath the left wing exploding,
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Speaker 1: and when it detonated, the cowling, which is the outside
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Speaker 1: of the engine kind of protects the engine, it broke apart,
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Speaker 1: and one of the pieces of this cowling flew and
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Speaker 1: hit the side of the aircraft, and it struck the
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Speaker 1: window of Row fourteen, Holly's row, and when it did that,
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Speaker 1: it shattered the window completely, causing an explosive decompression of
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Speaker 1: the cabin. When even a small hole opens up in
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Speaker 1: a plane flying miles above the earth, that hole will
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Speaker 1: create hurricane like forces inside of the cabin, and so
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Speaker 1: anything that is not completely anchored down, including people, will
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Speaker 1: get sucked out of that hole. And in this case,
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Speaker 1: that's what happened. When that window broke open, Jennifer, who
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Speaker 1: was sitting closest to it, was immediately sucked through the window.
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Speaker 1: Now she was not completely ejected, because her seat belt
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Speaker 1: kept her from going completely out the window, but her
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Speaker 1: entire upper half was now wedged outside of the plane.
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Speaker 1: As for the girl sitting next to Jennifer, in between
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Speaker 1: Jennifer and Holly, she was still getting pulled towards the
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Speaker 1: window because Jennifer, even though she had been pulled out,
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Speaker 1: there was still segments of the window that were open,
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Speaker 1: and so there was still suction towards the window. And
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Speaker 1: so Hally instinctively reached over and grabbed this girl and
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Speaker 1: pulled her in tight to her chest. And then with
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Speaker 1: her left arm, she reached behind the girl and grabbed
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Speaker 1: the belt of Jennifer, and she tried to pull Jennifer
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Speaker 1: back into the plane, but she could tell there was
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Speaker 1: no way she could pull her back. The forces pulling
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Speaker 1: Jennifer out of the plane were far too strong. Holly
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Speaker 1: remembers thinking, someone is going to know this is happening.
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Speaker 1: There's going to be a sensor or something. The flight
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Speaker 1: crew has got to be aware that a person is
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Speaker 1: getting pulled out of the plane.
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Speaker 2: But in reality, the captain and.
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Speaker 1: The flight crew, they were aware that the left engine
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Speaker 1: had blown up. That was the thing they were active
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Speaker 1: trying to combat, to try to keep the plane from crashing.
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Speaker 1: But they had no idea about the drama that was
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Speaker 1: unfolding in row fourteen. And so Holly is holding onto Jennifer.
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Speaker 1: She's holding onto this girl, and she's screaming out for
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Speaker 1: anybody in the plane to please take notice of the
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Speaker 1: fact that Jennifer is stuck out of the plane. But
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Speaker 1: the sound that was being created by this open window
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Speaker 1: was deafening.
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Speaker 2: Nobody could hear anybody else.
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Speaker 1: In this plane, Not to mention, the plane is banking
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Speaker 1: hard to the left, and everybody on board believes they're
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Speaker 1: about to die. So no one is looking around taking
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Speaker 1: stock of what's going on and assessing what to do next.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's in survival mode and is basically just focused on themselves.
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Speaker 1: And so despite Holly yelling out and trying to wave
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Speaker 1: to people. It was worthless. Jennifer was just stuck out
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Speaker 1: the window and no help was coming. And so for
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Speaker 1: several minutes, Holly's just holding on to Jennifer, She's holding.
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Speaker 2: Onto the s girl.
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Speaker 1: She's screaming out for help, but no one's hearing her.
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Speaker 1: And then eventually, as the plane began to come back
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Speaker 1: from its bank and it seemed like the pilot was
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Speaker 1: taking control of the craft, even though it was deafening
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Speaker 1: inside and it was still terrifying, people began to open
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Speaker 1: up their blinders a little bit and they started to
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Speaker 1: look around, and some people sitting in the vicinity of
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Speaker 1: Row fourteen they noticed what was going on with Jennifer,
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Speaker 1: and they began yelling and waving for the flight attendants.
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Speaker 1: But again, the sound from this window was deafening. There
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Speaker 1: was just no way the attendants could hear them. And
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Speaker 1: even though everyone's waving at the attendance, the attendants are
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Speaker 1: very preoccupied. They're dealing with the people right in front
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Speaker 1: of them who are all very worried and concerned. They're
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Speaker 1: trying to talk to the captain about what they need
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Speaker 1: to do next, and so they did not see there
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Speaker 1: was this emergency happening, and so for several more minutes,
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Speaker 1: Jennifer is just stuck out the window with nobody helping her.
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Speaker 1: And it was during this time, as Holly is holding
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Speaker 1: onto her waist and she's holding on to the girl
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Speaker 1: that Holly is thinking, you know, Jennifer, she's been stuck
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Speaker 1: outside the plane where there's no oxygen for almost ten minutes.
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Speaker 1: Nobody can survive that. And Jennifer's been forced through this
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Speaker 1: window that's not big enough to have a person fit
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Speaker 1: through it. And so Holly found herself moving her left
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Speaker 1: hand that was gripping onto Jennifer's waist. She just let
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Speaker 1: go of it, not because she was trying to let
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Speaker 1: go of Jennifer. Frankly, her hand was not keeping Jennifer
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Speaker 1: from going anywhere. It was just kind of habitual that
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Speaker 1: she was holding onto her waist. So she takes her
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Speaker 1: hand off of her waist and she just places it
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Speaker 1: right in the center of Jennifer's back like she was
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Speaker 1: comforting Jennifer. She was showing Jennifer that you're not alone.
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Speaker 1: We can't help you, but you're not alone. And the
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Speaker 1: woman in row fifteen, an older woman, she saw Holly
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Speaker 1: do this and she reached across and she put her
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Speaker 1: hand on Holly's back. It was like everybody knew this
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Speaker 1: is a total crisis, but there's just nothing we can do,
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Speaker 1: even if it's killing Jennifer. Despite the damage to the
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Speaker 1: left engine from it exploding, the captain Tammy Joe Schultz,
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Speaker 1: who was a longtime veteran of the airline, she was
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Speaker 1: able to combat this hard bank to the left and
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Speaker 1: she regained control of the plane, at which point, through
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Speaker 1: the intercom, she was able to bark out orders that
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Speaker 1: were loud enough for the flight attendants to actually hear
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Speaker 1: what was going on, and they were instructed to get
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Speaker 1: up and walk down the aisles and make sure the
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Speaker 1: passengers are okay.
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Speaker 2: And this is when the crew spotted Jennifer.
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Speaker 1: They acted quickly and rushed over and they grabbed Hollie
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Speaker 1: and the girl next to her, and they safely got
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Speaker 1: them out of that row and move them to a
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Speaker 1: different row. And then once they were gone, two men
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Speaker 1: named Andrew and Tim they volunteered to go in Row
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Speaker 1: fourteen and pull Jennifer back into the plane. They knew
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Speaker 1: the risks they pull her in. There is still an
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Speaker 1: opening in this plane, and they could very easily just
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Speaker 1: get sucked out themselves, but they didn't care. They knew
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Speaker 1: they needed to help this woman. And so, without any hesitation,
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Speaker 1: the two men walked into Row fourteen. They got in position,
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Speaker 1: and with all their might they were able to pull
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Speaker 1: Jennifer in. They got her into the aisle, and then
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Speaker 1: the two men were able to leave Row fourteen without
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Speaker 1: being sucked out. And so Jennifer is laying in the
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Speaker 1: aisle and a passenger who happened to be a nurse
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Speaker 1: who was named Peggy, she rushed.
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Speaker 4: Over and she began performing CPR.
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Speaker 1: At this point, Holly remembers looking around the cabin and
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Speaker 1: seeing that everybody was just perfectly still. It was still
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Speaker 1: deafeningly loud inside of the cabin because this window is
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Speaker 1: still sucking air outs. It's very very loud. But she's
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Speaker 1: looking out and there was just this aura of calm
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Speaker 1: inside the plane. No one was running around, no one
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Speaker 1: was panicking. Everyone was just kind of sitting watching as
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Speaker 1: Peggy was trying to save Jennifer's life. At eleven twenty
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Speaker 1: one am, so seventeen minutes after that pop was heard
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Speaker 1: outside of the plane. The captain of this plane is
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Speaker 1: able to successfully perform an emergency landing at an airport
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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, and as soon as they touched down on
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Speaker 1: the runway, the captain had already coordinated with a medical
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Speaker 1: team who was standing by, and they rushed on. They
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Speaker 1: grabbed Jennifer, they rushed her out. They got her to
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Speaker 1: the hospital, but unfortunately she didn't make it. She died
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Speaker 1: from blunt force trauma from having been forced out of
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Speaker 1: that window. It was just too small, and it happened
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Speaker 1: too suddenly, and it killed her. Holly was obviously very
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Speaker 1: shaken up by this experience, just like the rest of
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Speaker 1: the passengers who were on board. But there's a detail
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Speaker 1: in Holly's story that makes her experience even more traumatic.
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Speaker 1: On the morning she got on this plane, she arrived
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Speaker 1: at the airport fairly early. She had a big coffee
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Speaker 1: with her, and she got in line for security.
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Speaker 2: So as she's going.
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Speaker 1: Through this line, she's drinking this huge coffee, and then
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Speaker 1: when it's her turn to actually go through the scanners,
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Speaker 1: she finishes this coffee, she throws it away. She goes
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Speaker 1: through security, and by the time she's on the other side,
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Speaker 1: she's now late, and so she runs all the way
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Speaker 1: to her gate and when she boards, her boarding group
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Speaker 1: has already gotten on, and so all the seats that
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Speaker 1: she liked to take those are already gone. She liked
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Speaker 1: to sit towards the front of the plane because she
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Speaker 1: liked to be one of the people that got off
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Speaker 1: the plane first once they landed, and so she began
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Speaker 1: And so she starts walking down the row and she
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Speaker 1: finally gets to row fourteen.
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Speaker 4: She's looking on her left and there's a totally open row, three.
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Speaker 1: Open seats, and so, like she always did online on flights,
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Speaker 1: she took the window seat seat fourteen A because she
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Speaker 1: plane and sleep. And so after she buffled herself in
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Speaker 1: and put her luggage underneath the seat in front of her,
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Speaker 1: the two seats next to her by constantly all flight long,
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Speaker 1: bathroom over and over again. Holly decides, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I'll just move. I will sit in the aisle seat.
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Speaker 1: It's not as good because I can't sleep, but at
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