CRAZY STORIES AND FACTS ABOUT CRASHES YOU MIGHT FIND HARD TO BELIEVE

WHEN HE WAS IN THE ARMY, CLINT EASTWOOD

SURVIVED A PLANE CRASH IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN

AND SWAM SEVERAL MILES TO SHORE

IN 1973, STEVIE WONDER WAS IN A CAR CRASH THAT

PUT HIM INTO A COMA. WHEN DOCTORS COULDN'T DO

ANYTHING TO REVIVE HIM, HIS FRIEND SANG

“HIGHER GROUND” INTO HIS EAR AND STEVIE STARTED

TAPPING HIS FINGERS TO THE RHYTHM

THE FATHER OF ZIAD JARRAH, ONE OF THE 9/11

HIJACKERS, DIDN'T WANT HIM TO BE A PILOT

BECAUSE HE "ONLY HAD ONE SON AND DIDN'T WANT

HIM TO CRASH"

IN 1937 A TEENAGER IN FLORIDA KNOWN AS "BETTY"

WAS LISTENING TO HER FATHER'S SHORTWAVE RADIO

WHEN SHE ALLEGEDLY PICKED UP DISTRESS CALLS

FROM AMELIA EARHART FOLLOWING AMELIA'S CRASH.

SHE WROTE DOWN EVERYTHING SHE HEARD AND

TODAY IT IS CONTAINED IN A DOCUMENT CALLED

BETTY'S NOTEBOOK

ON 9/11 SOME FIGHTER JETS WERE SCRAMBLED

WITHOUT AMMUNITION. THE PILOTS WERE EXPECTING

TO RAM THEIR JETS INTO ANY POTENTIALLY

HIJACKED AIRLINER AND EJECT AT THE LAST SECOND

MAGNE FURUHOLMEN, A MEMBER OF THE NORWEGIAN

BAND A-HA, LOST HIS FATHER IN A PLANE CRASH

NEAR OSLO WHEN HE WAS 5 YEARS OLD. MORTEN HARKET,

HIS FUTURE BAND MATE WITNESSED THE CRASH.

THE TWO OF THEM WOULDN'T MEET UNTIL

13 YEARS LATER

WHEN A DOMESTIC FLIGHT CRASHED IN NORWAY IN

1948 WITH PHILOSOPHER BERTRAND RUSSELL

ONBOARD, RUSSELL WAS AMONG THE SURVIVORS

(ALL OF WHOM SAT IN THE SMOKING SECTION).

PRIOR TO THE FLIGHT BERTRAND HAD ALLEGEDLY

QUIPPED "IF I DON'T SIT IN THE SMOKING SECTION

I WILL DIE"

THE PILOTS OF DELTA FLIGHT 1141 WERE SO BUSY

FLIRTING WITH THE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS BEFORE

TAKEOFF THAT THEY ENDED UP CRASHING THE

PLANE AND KILLING 14 OF 108 PASSENGERS

TO MAKE THINGS EVEN MORE IRONIC, THE

"FLIRTATIOUS TOPIC" OF DELTA FLIGHT 1141 WAS

WHAT THE CREW WOULD SAY IN CASE THEY

CRASHED (IN LIGHT OF THE RECENT CONTINENTAL

AIRLINES FLIGHT 1713 CRASH)