Friday, May 18, 2018

Imagine getting on the wrong plane and sitting in the wrong seat. Imagine having a perfect life and then without any warning you are dead.

The passenger, Jennifer Riordan, age 43
The pilot, Tammie Jo Shults, age 56
One person was confirmed dead after a Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport Tuesday following a possible engine explosion, the National Transportation Safety Board announced. Jennifer Riordan was the passenger killed on Flight 1380, which NTSB officials said contained 143 passengers and five crew members. Riordan was taken to a local hospital, where she died. Her identity was confirmed by Annunciation Catholic School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and announced by KOAT-TV.

Riordan was a business executive with Wells Fargo, reported Heavy.com.

On what appeared to be Riordan's Twitter profile, @jrior89, she described herself as “@wellsfargo proud Team Member. Wife, mom of two, baseball fan, wine and coffee lover, passionate about my community.”

My post about what happened and how the female pilot did the impossible and landed that plane. She used fly warplanes for the United States Navy.

Wikipedia - Southwest Airlines Flight 1380

Three flight attendants were assigned to the flight, and an additional Southwest Airlines employee was also traveling as a passenger. All four reported that they heard a loud sound and felt a vibration. The oxygen masks automatically deployed in the cabin. The flight attendants retrieved portable oxygen bottles and began moving through the cabin to assist passengers with their masks. As they moved toward the mid-cabin, they found the passenger in row 14 partially out of the window and attempted to pull her inside. They were able to retrieve her with the help of two passengers, and other passengers performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The passenger, later identified as Jennifer Riordan, age 43, was removed from the aircraft alive but died in a local hospital.

"The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference."
-- Richard Dawkins

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