Survivors of Pan Am 103

[MerryPrankster]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

According to the article, supposedly one of the first people on the scene of the crash found one of the flight attendants was still alive, but she (I assume a woman) died soon afterward. There's also a reference to a corpse clutching blades of grass and possible indications the pilot was still alive when the crash occurred.

So, is it likely someone could have survived the crash of the plane and would that have any effects?

I imagine if they're able to talk or remember, they could provide a firsthand account of just what happened aboard the aircraft.

 

[Clipper747]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

According to the article, supposedly one of the first people on the scene of the crash found one of the flight attendants was still alive, but she (I assume a woman) died soon afterward. There's also a reference to a corpse clutching blades of grass and possible indications the pilot was still alive when the crash occurred.

So, is it likely someone could have survived the crash of the plane and would that have any effects?

I imagine if they're able to talk or remember, they could provide a firsthand account of just what happened aboard the aircraft.

The only person to have survived a catastrophic decompression and fall was a JAT stewardess Vesna Vulovic. She was working on a JAT DC-9 flying from Scandinavia to Belgrade via Prague when a Croat bomb blew the aircraft to pieces. This occurred in 1971 I believe. She was reported to have been found in the rear fuselage tail section. She is still alive today but paralyzed from waist down.
There is an unconfirmed report of a child being sucked out of a hole produced by an exploding tire in a Saudi L-1011 shortly after takeoff and surviving his fall. However the altitude from which he plunged was nowhere near the 30,000+ feet from PA 103.
A passenger aboard a British Airways Trident3B was found still alive in the wreckage after a mid-air collision with an Inex Adria DC-9 in September 1976 at 33,000. He/she died before rescuers could arrive on scene.

 

[modelcitizen]

That is incredibly depressing.

At the very least, it is damn melancholy, kind of like the movie "Unbreakable," sort of.

 

[Sior]

10 Amazing Free Fall Survivors

http://www.oddee.com/item_96967.aspx

 

[MerryPrankster]

That is incredibly depressing.

At the very least, it is damn melancholy, kind of like the movie "Unbreakable," sort of.

I did a story for my paper on a high school production of "The Women of Lockerbie" and they have a Greek chorus of Scottish women describing what they saw the day of the crash, which killed 11 people on the ground.

A bunch of high-school girls faking Scottish accents describing a section of the plane with the bodies still strapped in their seats, some of whom had expressions of horror on their faces, and describing the mail from destroyed mailbags drifting on the wind.

I might actually go see it in a couple of weeks.

 

[modelcitizen]

I did a story for my paper on a high school production of "The Women of Lockerbie" and they have a Greek chorus of Scottish women describing what they saw the day of the crash, which killed 11 people on the ground.

A bunch of high-school girls faking Scottish accents describing a section of the plane with the bodies still strapped in their seats, some of whom had expressions of horror on their faces, and describing the mail from destroyed mailbags drifting on the wind.

I might actually go see it in a couple of weeks.

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if it's done right, I presume it's something I'd not want to see twice.

 

[MerryPrankster]

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if it's done right, I presume it's something I'd not want to see twice.

Most of the story is about a bunch of Scottish women trying to get the U.S. State Department to release the clothes of the victims so they can wash them and return them to their families.

The Greek chorus does show up a few times. I only saw the one about how death is quick but grief sticks around and the flashback to the day of the crash.