Concord, NH (AP) – sad. Happy. Excited. Criminal.
Dennis Lockey of Charlett, Northern Carolina has felt all of the above in recent weeks, as a string of major aviation accidents brought back memories of an accident-land in an icy river in New York. Sixteen years after “Miracle on Hudson”, he and other aviation disaster are ready to support those who are emerging from their predecessors in Toronto on Monday.
“Right now, they have not also processed what happened,” Lockey said about 80 passengers and crew members who survived when the flight of delta air lines crashed 4819 and flipped at Pererson International Airport. .
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On January 29, there were no survivors when a commercial jetliner and an army helicopter collided with a helicopter at Washington, DC. Toronto, not only no one died, the last of the injured was released from the hospital on Thursday.
“It’s amazing,” passenger Peter Carlson said, who spoke at a conference after less than 48 hours of the accident. However he managed to crack a joke – “Nothing beats a good road trip to an airplane accident” – he later struggled to leave his hotel room.
“I was quite emotional about this whole thing and really want to be home,” Karlson said, the newest member of retired flight attendant Sandy Pearl says “sad satire and fraternity”.
History of existence
Monday’s accident in Toronto was not the first time that life was not spared during a major aviation disaster: In 2005, all 309 people on Air France Flight 358 overtook the runway and burst into flames.
In 1989, out of 296 people aboard the United Airlines flight 232, 184 survived an accident in Sox City, Iowa. And in 1977, Purl 22 was one of the remaining people when Southern Airways Flight 242 lost both engines into a hailstorm and crashed in New Hope, Georgia. People riding on the aircraft died, as well as on nine land.
“You have an enthusiasm immediately because you survived,” Purel said, now 72. “But then you are known as mental numbness, which protects you from everything in your brain that you cannot bring to the surface for a long time below the road, if ever.”
For more than a year after the accident, whenever someone mentioned the disaster, Purl’s strategy was to run away. Eventually she was admitted to a psychiatry hospital, where she told the employees, “I can’t stop crying.”
A kind doctor took his hand and assured her that what she felt was real.
“For the first time, after one and a half years, people were not saying,” You look very good! Go with your life, you are very lucky to live, “he said.” For the first time, someone felt me felt for the first time. Allowed to do and cry and feel safe. “
The remaining people stick together
Both PURL and Lockey are members of the National Air Disaster Alliance, who were designed in 1995 to support and support the families of the victims.
In 2009, the group published an open letter to 155 passengers and crew members of the US Airways Flight 1549, when captain Chasali “Suli” Sulenberger disabled both engines after a bird strike in the Hudson River.
The group said, “We are grateful and grateful that all survived, but the survivors need time to process and understand what is meant to avoid an air accident,” the group wrote, survived Encouraged people to relax, retreat, rely on others and reserve their rights for privacy.
Taking this forward, the lockie is giving equal advice for people aboard the Toronto flight. He described staying in fog for about eight weeks after his accident, struggling to struggle with his corporate job because his injuries were cured and surrounded by bad dreams and nervousness attacks.
“Absolutely number one as far as my question is, he is taking it to someone who can understand,” he said. “I think Delta is a great airline and I am sure their care team is fantastic, but then, how many people from those care teams have actually been involved in an aviation incident?”
Friends and family members from family can be urged to move forward with their lives, they said, but “it doesn’t just work in this way.”
“You may be afraid that later come forward, and you must really be able to deal with those people,” he said. “So my recommendation is that you can probably take all help.”
This is not much to trigger memories
While Lucky said that his experience has not often stopped him from flying, it has shaped his behavior in other ways. When she enters a store or restaurant, for example, she always exits the fastest way.
“You must be able to calm yourself if there is something that triggers your emotional ability,” he said.
Four years after the accident, Pearl, who returned to work as a flight attendant, said that he could be triggered by looking at the smell of gasoline or other accidents.
“I watch TV and I look at my accident,” she said. “I sniff it. I taste it. I see black smoke and I cannot go through it. I feel the heat of fire. ,
He said that Toronto can increase the underlying trauma to the remaining people.
“Like the layers of an onion, you pull a back and have another layer below,” he said.
His advice: Live at a time in a day, find people who offer unconditional love and talk, talk, talk.
“And then find a way to create a difference as the result,” he said.
