The traveling Narayanan's went on one of their most adventurous and eventful trips in recent memory over the last four days.
We went to Alaska.. saw Glaciers, Grizzly's, natures beauty and wonders at its finest and to just round it off.. we encountered another one of natures anomalies on our return flight from Anchorage to Portland enroute to San Jose.
A guy for reasons we don't know decided to open the exit door while we were still way above the cloud line. We heard a hissing sound and a lady screamed "Someone please help.. someone help now!" and a bunch of passgengers set about securing the door and tacking the guy.
After a few tense moments the guy was on the ground restrained and we made a speedy landing and watched as the cops took the guy away. He seemed to be calm and collected as he was taken out.
Why someone would want to do that is beyond me.. why want to take a bunch of others with you if you have a death wish?!
Like a fellow passenger told me after we came out "the good news is that we are all still here!"
To the alert lady (as most of us were sleeping!), and the folks and crew who held the door and restrained the crazy dude, many THANKS from the bottom of our heart.
There are heroes all around us! There are 10 heroes for every idiot! At least that is the lesson we are teaching our kids today after this experience. They were both disturbed, as were the adults for the second flight.. they kept watching the exit rows for action.
This puts a lot of things in perspective!
The rest of the pictures and videos can wait. Time to get some much needed rest...
Monday, May 27, 2013 at 6:40PM ;)