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Speaker 1: Coming on to the landing, we felt the brakes were

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hit really hard, and we were all in the sense

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of nervousness, like we all lurched forward in our seats

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a little bit just by how hard the brakes were hit.

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really loud bang and everybody's head basically hit the seat

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in front of them, and in that moment it was

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just chaos and panic. I mean, this planet immediately felt

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like there was no one in control.

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Speaker 2: This is the Miracle Files. I'm Emily Jones and.

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Speaker 3: I'm Holly Worthington.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes the news and social media can feel pretty dark.

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Speaker 5: And true crime can leave you afraid to even crawl

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into bed. But we're here to prove that there are

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more miracles than murders.

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Speaker 4: In these special Miracles in the News episodes, we dig

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through the headlines for.

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Speaker 5: You because miracles still happen and God is still good.

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Welcome back to Miracles in the News. All right, Hollywood,

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he got for us today.

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Speaker 4: Okay, you may have seen the viral footage for this

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story because it's kind of been all over in national news,

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but I want to recognize the miracles that took place

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because that's what I think a lot of people don't

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know about.

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Speaker 3: Our story starts.

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Speaker 4: Today in Montreal, Canada. It's ten twelve pm Eastern time,

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and Air Canada flight eight six four six departs heading

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to LaGuardia Airport in New York. But the flight doesn't

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go according to plan even from the beginning. It's about

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a ninety minute flight, and unfortunately the passenger jet, which

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is carrying seventy two passengers and four crew members, is

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running late. It's running over two hours.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I know the story you're talking about.

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Speaker 5: I have seen this viral footage online, but I just

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I don't know the full details. And I didn't know

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that there were miracles, So keep going.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just wait, there really are.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 4: So while Air Canada flight eight six four six is

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in the air, something else is happening in New York.

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At ten thirty pm, the overnight shift at LaGuardia's air

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traffic control tower begins with a reduced staff of only

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two air traffic controllers. At eleven twenty one pm, another

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passenger jet United two three eighty four is planning to

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take off, but instead calls the tower reporting an unusual odor,

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saying it wants to return to the gate. Then about

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ten minutes later, the United plane is still on the

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ground and it's pilots declare an emergency, saying that flight

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attendants are feeling ill and they need to return to

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the gate. A fire truck is dispatched to assist the aircraft.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so there's two planes, one in the air, the

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other one on the ground. Smells something funny. A fire

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truck is now heading to that one on the ground.

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Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, check on it.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 4: So over the next few minutes things start getting really complicated.

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Air Canada flight eight six four six. The plane in

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the air checks in with the LaGuardia tower and is

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cleared to land.

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Speaker 6: The plane with clear to land on runway four just

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after eleven thirty five pm Local time, TIE two Clane

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Speaker 4: Almost at the same time, a tower controller clears the

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fire truck to also cross runway for.

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Speaker 6: Truck one company with boardy tower requesting to cross for

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at Delta Truck one. Company it cross for at Delta

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Truck one and company crossing for at Delva.

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Speaker 4: So the Air Canada plane calls out that it is

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one hundred feet above ground and is about to land. Unfortunately,

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the fire truck is still planning to cross the same

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runway that the airplane is about to land on. The

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air traffic controller recognizes his air at the last second

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Speaker 6: Stop there, stop up, truck, stop stop stop stop, truck

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one stop, sap, truck one stop.

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Speaker 5: I remember hearing that on the video. And just like

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each time he says stop, stop, stop, you can tell

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he's like getting more frantic with each one, like stop.

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Speaker 7: I can't imagine the terror of this air track.

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Speaker 4: So it's now eleven thirty eight pm. The Air Canada

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plane touches down on the runway. It's going somewhere between

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ninety three and one hundred and five miles an hour

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and is headed straight for a collision with the fire truck.

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of Air Canada have to react immediately, deciding if they

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will hit the fire truck head on, likely ending their

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own lives, or possibly try to turn the plane and

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risk the lives of all the passengers if the plane

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tips or rolls, they decide to hit the fire truck

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Speaker 8: Surveillance video posted online shows the moment the Air Canada

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jets slammed into a fire truck crossing the runway.

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Speaker 3: That is that's hard to watch.

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Speaker 5: I mean you can see like at the last second,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is awful.

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Speaker 2: It's so sad.

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Speaker 4: Jack Cabot is one of the passengers on the plane

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Speaker 1: Coming on to the landing, we felt the brakes were

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really loud bang and everybody's head just basically hit the

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seat in front of them, and in that moment it

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was just it was chaos and panic. I mean, this

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plane immediately felt like there was no one in control,

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and people were screaming, people were crying.

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Speaker 2: That would be so frightening.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an incredibly tragic moment, and the fund of

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the aircraft is basically gone, like annihilated, and both pilots

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are killed on impact.

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hard to watch is you know that this is the

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moment when lives ended, and these are two completely innocent people, unsuspecting.

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their normal jobs, like they would have had no idea

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what was about to happen.

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Speaker 3: I know, it is so sad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So the captain's name is Antoine Forrest and the first

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officer is Mackenzie Gunther, both young, passionate, skilled pilots tragically killed.

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is also ejected from the airplane. Inside the cabin, as

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you can imagine, there is total chaos, total panic. Their

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plane is just crashed, but beyond that, there's only one

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crew member left on board who happens to be injured.

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if the plane could explode, Like, yeah, this is just

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one of those really terrifying, awful moments, and yet in

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this moment of just darkness and spare you begin to

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see God's hand in this story. Several heroes step forward,

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and for passenger Rachel Mariotti, part of her miracle came

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in the farm of another passenger named Rachel Lcory. They

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were seated in the emergency exit row and they worked

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together to remove the emergency exit door and help people

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off of the plane.

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Speaker 10: I pulled the door out, and it was very heavy,

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so protocol is for you to throw it out the window.

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I was so panicked. I didn't remember that part. But

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it out of the way so that all of the

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passengers on our side could get out.

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Speaker 9: I had a moment to maneuver the door around. I

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give credit to Rebecca for getting that door off. I

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don't know what I would have done. You know, honestly,

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I've heard those exit instructions and I passively pay attention.

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I'm going to pay attention next time. I mean, I

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remember looking at the stickers on the door and it's

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kind of like, but I wasn't registering. Okay, that's what

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Speaker 5: Quickly, yeah, I mean I sat in the exit row before.

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and I'm sure in a moment like that, I would freeze.

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you're right, I tell them I'm perfectly capable of taking

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out that door. But at the same time, yeah, it

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makes me want to take that all so much more

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seriously when I go on these flights, right, and amazing

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that these women actually did step up to the plate

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and do what they were supposed to do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Thankfully, Rebecca finds strength beyond her own and manages to

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help get everyone out. And I'm sure that that had

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to be such a horrible moment for her. But when

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Rebecca finally gets off the plane, she pauses to process,

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and these are her thoughts.

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Speaker 3: In that moment.

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Speaker 10: I was thinking that I'm a walking miracle and God

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gave me a second chance at life, and I could

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have almost not made it home to my boys in

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my family.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure all of the passengers who made it off

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that plane felt that way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure they did too.

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Speaker 4: And Rebecca isn't the only one who sees miracles in

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this plane crash, and unbeknownst initially to the other passengers,

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when the front of the airplane is ripped apart, the stewardess,

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Solange Tremblay, hasn't just been injected from the plane.

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Speaker 7: She's been thrown over three hundred feet.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's insane.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and as you can imagine, at that distance, no

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one expects to find her life. But when first responders

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find her, she's lying on the tarmac, still strapped into

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her jump seat. And even more shocking, Solange is alive

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and conscious.

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Speaker 8: Wow, how did she survive? The flight attendant thrown three

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hundred feet from the air Canada plane is confounding everyone today.

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Her daughter tells a Canadian news outlet her mom suffered

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a broken leg, but says it's a miracle she survived.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that is crazy.

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Speaker 5: You think about three hundred feet that's almost the length

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Speaker 2: Going one hundred miles per hour.

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Speaker 5: It's like getting shot out of a can Like, how

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do you survive that?

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Speaker 3: I know it is truly a miracle.

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Speaker 4: Crazy, And when I've looked into this further, I think

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she may have actually broken both of her legs. But still,

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Speaker 2: Amazing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this story, you know, sits right there at that

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intersection between tragedy and miracles. And when you look at

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the timeline, I mean, things just were lining up for

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an absolute disaster. You had a delayed departure, an emergency

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on another flight, and airplane traveling it over one hundred

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miles per hour carrying seventy six people, colliding, two people

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in a fire truck.

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Speaker 2: Everything seemed to be going wrong.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and in the middle of all of that and

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even more disastrous outcome that could have happened didn't.

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Speaker 2: That's true.

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Speaker 4: And despite the chaos and the injuries, not a single

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passenger lost their lives and the firefighters both lived as well.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Truly miraculous outcome. And I don't think anyone can explain

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how Solange survived other than a miracle.

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Speaker 2: No, for sure, that was a miracle.

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Speaker 4: But I also really believe that these pilots are incredible

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heroes and are a big part of why these people

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experience this incredible miracle.

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Speaker 1: I'm so incredibly grateful for the pilots and their actions.

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I mean, it was a high impact plane crash, and

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they laid down their lives to save everybody else. It

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was a miracle that so many people were okay, and

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that's only really thanks to them. I remember smelling gas

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and being worried that the whole planet was going to

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blow up for a few minutes. But I mean it's

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a miracle that the plane didn't blow up. I mean

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person would have died.

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Speaker 3: The pilots sacrificed their lives.

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Speaker 9: And I learned about these two guys, Antoine Forrest Mackenzie Gunter.

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I think it's important to say their names, and I

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really want to say thank you to their families for

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raising such brave young men. I know that they were

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both from Canada from what I recall, and they're both

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young and passionate about flying. People go into professions that

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take a lot of risk to keep other people safe

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and to testament to their training that they'd put on

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the brakes versus what a human instinct would say is

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to serve out of the way. Who knows it could

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have caught on fire, a plane could have rolled over whatever,

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brakes and I'm pretty sure they knew that they were

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going to not make it, and we're all able to

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go home because of them.

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Speaker 5: Wow, you can hear the gratitude and like they're almost

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add that they have when they talk about these pilots

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who saved their lives. And it's interesting to think about

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my own reaction. If I was about to hit something,

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I would probably try to swerve.

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Speaker 9: Out of the way.

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you probably could have caused the plane to flip or whatever.

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Speaker 4: And it's possible the pilots could have lived through that

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if they had swerved, but it definitely would have put

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the passengers' lives.

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Speaker 3: More in danger.

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Speaker 4: Right, And these were incredibly well trained, selfless men, and

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we want to honor their lives. We may never know

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why their lives were taken, but we do believe that

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God has a purpose in all things. And interestingly, Dancing

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with the Stars Alarmed Charlotte Jorgensen happened to be on

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the airplane, and this is what she.

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Speaker 3: Said of the pilots.

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Speaker 4: They made the ultimate sacrifice so that we could all live.

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I'm indebted to them and my thoughts are with their families.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's really poignant.

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Speaker 5: I mean I imagine all of these passing will remember

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these two pilot's names forever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it.

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Speaker 5: Does lead me wondering, like why did this happen? Like

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what went wrong to cause something like this to happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of people want to know the

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answer to that question, and they are investigating, and they're

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thinking they may.

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Speaker 3: Have some answers.

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Speaker 6: Investigators looking at if the same air traffic controller was

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in charge of traffic for both the airline and that

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fire truck, because that's against procedures anytime before midnight.

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Speaker 2: Interesting.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so apparently this happened at about eleven thirty five pms,

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so just before midnight. But I'm sure there are several

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factors that may have led to this collision, right, and

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it's still under investigation. Either way, it's a terrible tragedy,

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but as with many many tragedies, I think it's so

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important that we look for the miracles as well.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really interesting when you first brought up the

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story and like I, you know, remembered that video and

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hearing that the pilots had passed away.

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Speaker 2: I was like, how is this a miracle?

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Speaker 5: Because if somebody passed away, how can that be a miracle.

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But I agree that it is really important to look

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for the miracles in every aspect of life, in every

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story and every experience. This kind of reminds me of

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like the very tragic moment when the flash flood hit

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the girls camps in Texas. Yeah, so many tragedies came

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out of that story. But also if you look for

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the miracles, so many miracles. How many countless miracle stories

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did we also hear about? And I mean, if you

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look for the miracles, you will find them.

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Speaker 4: You will find them, Yes, absolutely, And we are so

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grateful for the miracles that took place in this story,

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in this terrible disaster that could have been so much worse,

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and made these pilots rest and peace. And our condolences

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are with their families. You're in our prayers, and we

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want to thank everyone for joining us today. I just

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to end by quoting John fifteen thirteen, because I couldn't

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help but think of this verse when I heard this story.

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Speaker 3: Greater love hath no.

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Speaker 7: Man than this, that a man laid down his life

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for his friends.

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Speaker 11: One of the young pilots killed and Twan Forrest identified

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by family online, his brother writing, you've again left in

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a whirlwind, too soon to say goodbye. I love you, brother.

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You can leave with your head held high.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for joining us. If you have a miracle

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to share, contact us at the Miracle files dot com

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or find us on social media. We release new episodes

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so don't forget Miracle mondays. Subscribe on your favorite

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Speaker 4: Join us next time as we discover more of God's miracles,

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and don't forget to look for His light in your

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own lives.