fiftyfourbones

I'm not sure. I could very well be in some sort of limbo for my sins this very minute. I have often thought that while browsing Reddit.

Yeah. We broke up later that year, as a matter of fact. She hurt her neck, and she sued my dad and won a large sum of money. I'm not sure the exact amount, but I heard $20k was the settlement. My dad wasn't at fault, but somehow she managed to get the money. I haven't spoken to her since our breakup.

I am not 100% sure, but I heard that it was her mother's idea to sue my dad. I don't know though...haven't spoken to her.

1) No crapped pants. When we crawled from the wreckage, the three of us were shaking uncontrollably. Like something from a movie, our entire bodies were shaking as if we were stuck in a freezer for an hour.

2) I don't know. It was my dad's small Piper, and those planes don't have anything like that.

3) No flashbacks. No life-flashing-before-your-eyes moment. Everything just seemed to be happening in slow-motion. I can remember every detail, strangely enough.

Slow motion. When the engine died, I really didn't know what was happening. I was in the back seat, and didn't see the propeller stop until my dad made a "mayday" call on the advisory frequency for the airport. At that moment, we were at about tree-top level and descending rapidly. The next moment, my attention was out the side window where I saw the right wing teetering up and down (my dad was struggling to maintain control while trying to choke start the engine). When we were over the runway, I saw the wingtip almost touch the ground and I yelled at my dad to "Watch the wing! Watch the wing!" Looking back, that probably didn't help much. Seconds later we hit the fence. I saw my dad lurch forward and hit his head.

When we flipped three times and stopped, the plane was upside-down, so we had to crawl on our hands and knees out of the wreckage.

Outside, I saw people from the airfield in the distance running our way. The airplane wings and tail were pretty much gone. I smelled gas. My hands and knees were shaking uncontrollably. My dad, my girlfriend, and I immediately huddled together and started sobbing.

Most vivid memory of my life.