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[quote=Anonymous]Two times I’ve had the ultimate tuvil nice experience. Once I was flying during the summer from DC to Puerto Rico, blue skies somewhere over the Atlantic, when I suddenly heard the engines of the plane roar. I thought for a second how odd it was to power up in mid flight when suddenly the plane lurched up violently, curved over and then plummeted what seemed to be a few hundred feet. After that shock and all of us looking at each other in disbelief, the plane did it again. This time we rolled sideways to the right, plunged a few hundred feet like a roller coaster before righting ourselves again. Some poor little kid who didn’t have his seat belt on flew into the overhead bin and gashed his head. Emergency personnel met us in San Juan to get the kid medical attention. This is why I a,ways wear my seatbelt no matter what. The pilot said later it was due to thunder clouds of warm air or something, and that the plane literally flew over this pockets.

Second time was flying from Toronto to DCA. Horrible weather. Wind gusts of over 60 miles per hour. I thought we were going to die trying to land. My young daughter  was the on,y one on the plane verbalizing how scared she was and asking if we were going to crash. Everyone else remained silent in prayer. The plane was skating so hard and dropping it felt like a struggle to control it. Even the pilots voice was shaking from the turbulence. We tried to land once and aborted. Tried a second time. Finally made it. We applauded. My husband and I aged 20 years after that flight. We came home and had some hard liquor that night to calm our nerves. I thanked the female pilot and her co pilot for their nerves of steel.[/quote]

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